Google Offers Us a Chance to Watch "The Interview"!

Google offers the movie “The Interview” with Seth Rogen & James Franco for rent ($5.99) or for sale ($14.99). I bought a copy Christmas Day & my husband and I watched it the day after Christmas. Once you’ve seen the movie, you’ll understand why Kim Jong Un was so desperate to keep everyone from seeing it, especially his own people. There are so many twists and turns in the plot that you won’t be sure at any moment how it’s going to end, but there are many comic moments, including the fact that the actor, Randall Park, who plays Kim Jong Un, is infinitely more normal, mature, and handsome than the actual tinhorn dictator.

It’s worth watching, although at times Franco plays a character so idiotic that you want to strangle him at times. His CIA handler is worth watching as she struggles to stay ahead of his screw-ups in one of the most dangerous countries in the world. Seth Rogen, believe it or not, is often the voice of reason compared to his sidekick, Franco, who plays Dave Skylark, the interviewer. Rogen still engages in crude humor and pratfalls, as is his wont.

I still think it’s our patriotic duty to rent or buy this movie to refuse to let some petulant, pudgy dictator who starves and emprisons his people to decide what we can see and hear. Our First Amendment freedoms must prevail, even if “The Interview” isn’t the best comedy you have seen or will see in your lifetime.

Interestingly, many Chinese in China liked pirated copies of “The Interview” and gave it their thumbs up.