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What it did go for is pretty simple: Melanie (Julia A. Rudolf ’10) is a terrible newspaper advice columnist who wishes she were writing children’s books instead. Nick (Derek M. Flanzraich ’10), who works for the newspaper’s owner Fitzwilliam (Nelson T. Greaves ’10), is in love with Melanie...
Which brings us to the primary reason to see “Ask Me Anything.” As the unfeeling, self-involved Fitzwilliam (a guy who asks Nick to bring him a pillow stuffed with “crisp fifty dollar bills” on a whim), Greaves was magnificent, bringing a kind of grand narcissistic vision to a character who would otherwise be merely petty. He was the highlight of any scene in which he was onstage, including a long scene in which he did nothing...
Fitzwilliam is dating Melanie, who is unhappy with their relationship—but not as unhappy with it as Nick, who is obviously smitten with her. Nick writes an anonymous letter to Melanie asking for advice on how to win a woman, and he receives predictably terrible advice. It’s when he takes that advice, befriending a mystic named Steve (Andrew M. Choi ’10), dressing as a ninja, and serenading Melanie in Italian, that “Ask Me Anything” really took...
...humor from these inspired sources; and so, on the evidence, did Wright and Pegg. Shaun of the Dead was shot at Ealing, and takes its skewed vision of English community from the films made their more than a half-century before. Hot Fuzz has much the quirky vibe of Nick Park's stop-motion animated comedies of rural English life. Only this has so much stomach-knotting violence, it's more like Wallace and Vomit...
...never taken a shortcut before?" says Pegg to Frost before vaulting over some backyard fences; same as in the earlier film. Or, one guy: "You want anything at the shop?" Other guy: "Cornetto." Or, Frost (with inane bravado): "I'll drive." Also, on a quick trip back to London, Nick enters a store where the clerk is a zombie. Apparently the plague from Shaun hasn't quite been eradicated. Or maybe the two films are parallel stories in the same temporal universe. (I'll bet the movie also has jokes from the Wright-Pegg TV series Spaced and other collaborations...