Brandon Trost directs Seth Rogen, Seth Rogen and Sarah Snook in this time travel comedy where an immigrant worker at a pickle factory is accidentally preserved for 100 years and wakes up in modern-day Brooklyn.

One of those “lost” Covid movies released when multiplexes needed content once they reopened but the studios refused to give ‘em anything big like Bond or Top Gun after Tenet struggled. I think we are finally back at a point where cinemas are busy and not just for the opening weekend of hyped blockbusters. I went to a screening of The Invite this weekend (Hello again, Seth) and it was full. Toy Story 5 was full. Obsession and Backrooms were probably still doing very healthy business. Felt like 1999 in terms of deep programming footfall. Anyway, this is a sweet comedy. Quite in tune with Mel Brooks and Albert Brooks at their most mainstream. Millennial concerns are reframed through the eyes of an Eastern European pre-Soviet union serf. Things go wild. Rogen has built up an impressive body of accessible, lowkey satires between all those dick and weed joke vehicles. We went to see Unhinged back when the Vue Ocean Terminal reopened. We probably should have went to see this too.

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