- Content: “A Fool’s Paradise Indeed”
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What You Need To Know:
The comedy in FOOL’S PARADISE does show some of the pitfalls of fame in the entertainment industry. However, the comedy is often immoral and unfunny, the performances are over-the-top, and the pacing is poor. The movie feels more like a bunch of half-baked comedy sketches forced together than an actual movie. It has a shallow, mixed worldview that never really condemns the consequences of pursuing pleasure and money. FOOL’S PARADISE also contains heavy foul language, drunkenness, cocaine use, and strong sexual content. The movie is excessively immoral and unacceptable.
Content:
Mixed pagan worldview that does show some of the pitfalls of fame and immorality that often comes with fame and for those who pursue their personal pleasure with disregard for anyone else, but it often makes light of the immorality that it attacks
At least 40 obscenities (including many “f” words) and several strong profanities
Some comedic violence, characters go to jail, character falls from a building and goes to the hospital, a character beats up a photographer, and a man accidentally hangs himself
Strong sexual content overall includes a scene where a character hired for a pornographic movie watches a video with depicted fornication, characters shown lying in bed after implied fornication, some crass sexual dialogue, including references to death by autoeroticism
No explicit nudity, but a woman drops her robe in front of main character, and her shoulder is seen, and a woman’s back is shown during a sex scene
Constant drinking throughout at parties, with some scenes of drunkenness
Brief cigarette smoking, and characters snort cocaine in one scene;
The movie ends up glorifying the immorality it tries to satirize.
More Detail:
Eventually, their antics catch up with them after a serious injury and they’re forced to reflect on what’s really important in life. Will they turn away from the party scene of fame and fortune and realize what is most important? Or, will they drown in their own ambition?
FOOL’S PARADISE is meant to be a satirical comedy about the entertainment industry but ends up failing to say much of anything at all. The comedy is immoral and unfunny, the performances are over-the-top, and the pacing is poor. The movie feels more like a bunch of half-baked comedy sketches forced together than an actual movie.
On top of that, the movie ends up promoting the very actions it seeks to satirize. Thus, it shows immorality in a flippant way without ever truly condemning it. It is a fool’s paradise indeed, as the movie becomes more unfunny as its runtime comes to an end.
FOOL’S PARADISE takes a crack at the entertainment industry and does show some of the pitfalls of fame through its comedy. However, it has a shallow, mixed worldview that both makes fun of but never really condemns the consequences of pursuing pleasure and money in the entertainment industry. FOOL’S PARADISE also contains abundant foul language, drunkenness, cocaine use, and strong sexual content. So, MOVIEGUIDE® labels it excessive and unacceptable. Movieguide® advises that audiences avoid FOOL’S PARADISE altogether, due to its poor writing and excessive immorality.
