He’s not loose enough, nor particularly keyed into playing someone who appears to be not all that invested in what’s going on around him while actually being very invested. Hamm doesn’t need to mimic that, but there’s no interpretation of his own. Not so here, he’s just up to … something.Ĭhase’s talents and instinct for physical comedy played up the character’s ability to fast-talk his way into, and out of, a variety of situations - sometimes with the help of a costume. He is forever obfuscating the truth, and if you know why he’s employing these tactics each step of the way, you’ll buy into them. He’s wry and unflappable, but there’s supposed to be a moral compass in there somewhere, beneath that self-satisfied exterior. And the newest film doesn’t do the necessary work to introduce - well, reintroduce - who he is: The guy’s a jerk, but he’s our jerk. There was a buoyancy to the original movies, which date from 19, but I’d wager Fletch is a blank slate to a sizable chunk of movie audiences born in the years since.
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