Observe and Report is without a doubt hilarious. Run, do not walk, to your nearest cinema and watch it. Tell all of your friends and have them tell their friends and have their friends tell their cousins.
Yeah, it is honestly that funny.
At first glance, the movie is exactly what you expect it to be: the lovable underachieving security guard of questionable intelligence takes his job very seriously (perhaps too seriously), strives to be more in life, wants to get the really hot girl who also works in the mall, and faces some kind of obstacle that involves catching a bad guy, which, if he succeeds in doing, will make him a hero. We've all obviously seen that before (that other Mall Cop movie and a million other "good guy finishes first" types), so of course we are all rooting for Seth Rogen's Ronnie... But between the hysterics and random ridiculousness, you realize that Jody Hill is taking you for a ride you never anticipated you'd be on. Ronnie isn't really a good guy who happens to be a loser. He's actually racist, violent, disillusioned, and suffering from a mood disorder for which he heavily medicates. Throw a little bit of tragic failure into that and the movie plummets into a dark place that shouldn't really be funny at all as we watch Ronnie spiral downward in a manic ball of fire... but, you're still laughing. How on earth did Hill and Rogen manage to make you laugh your @ss off at the story of a guy who in reality we'd probably be kind of scared of and we'd sure as hell never root for?? I have no clue. You just have to watch.
Things to note: Aziz Ansari completely steals the scene every time he's on screen; no matter what role Ray Liotta plays he still seems like a gangster to me... also he has a scary face; Anna Faris + vomit + sex = imagery that will haunt me for years; and last but not least, in movie-land, it's OK to shoot perverts.
There's really nothing else to say except: go see the movie.
Boom!
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