STRETCH...

Since I had the day off from work today, I finally got around to watching Stretch...a crime comedy starring Patrick Wilson, Chris Pine, Jessica Alba, Brooklyn Decker, Ed Helms and other talented cast members. All I could think of after watching this flick was—WHY, OH WHY didn't Universal Pictures show this movie in theaters? (I watched it online through Amazon Instant Video.) Stretch was hilarious! If you've seen the 2012 Colin Farrell comedy Seven Psychopaths and enjoyed that flick, then you'll also like this one since it's about a hapless dude trying to make it in Hollywood...only to get caught up in violent criminal enterprises during the process. Audiences would definitely have dug Chris Pine's performance, as he played a coked-out, self-punching money launderer who gets Wilson (nicknamed Stretch) to do his bidding at the price of $6,000. And despite the numerous times that Stretch gets screwed over in this movie (he incurs the wrath of such celebrities as...David Hasselhoff and Ray Liotta during his crappy job as a limo driver), leave it to Hollywood to have Stretch get dumped by Brooklyn Decker in the opening scene of the film—only to hook up with none other than Jessica Alba at the end. (Sorry, spoilers.) Yea, that's a feel-good conclusion if I've ever seen one.