Good Mourning (2022)

I just spent 90 minutes of my life wondering if I was too old to get the joke. Just too tragically unhip, not connecting with the youth of America, clueless who all these jokers were, and all-together just a clueless nimrod who’s probably get an AARP application lurking in the mailbox.

But then I check good ol’ Letterboxd and am reassured by a 1.7 user score that, no, this is just a really bad movie. 0% on ol RT. Doesn’t mean I’m not befuddled and confounded for other reasons, but, fellow kids, how do you do?

Good Mourning stars Machine Gun Kelly and a bunch of other random people in co-starring roles, cameos, and extended cameos. Our hero wakes up one morning to an obscure text from his girlfriend which makes him think she’s breaking up with him. Because she texted him “good mourning” instead of “good morning”.

Guess that checks out. Solid logic to hang a plot on.

I think I might have smirked once or twice when Pete Davidson showed up because, even when he’s aggressively unfunny, at least he understands comic timing. Most of the people in this flick do not… and, as a comedian, Machine Gun Kelly makes a great rapper.

This turkey is up there with Airplane Mode for most aggressively unfunny comedies this decade. But at least I got the jokes in Airplane Mode… half of the comedy here seems like either an inside joke among friends or the babbling ravings of a star thinking any jokes about fame and fortune are inherently funny.

This is one shockingly bad flick.

Score: 54