![]() ![]() Director Jeff Tomsic even films them like major action set-pieces, taking major inspiration from Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes films by using speed-ramping, slow-motion, and voice-over to depict Jerry dismantling his friends much like Sherlock Holmes outsmarts and defeats his enemies in those films. In some respects Tag is an action film and these moments of the friends trying to tag Renner’s Jerry are the main action set-pieces. Most of the film consists of Helms, Johnson, Hamm, and Renner concocting elaborate plans to entrap Renner, which he always manages to upset in spectacular fashion. Helms’ Hoagie wrangles Johnson’s Chilli, Buress’s Sable, and Hamm’s Callahan into teaming up to tag Renner’s Jerry, who is retiring from the game after his upcoming wedding and has avoided being "It" over the past 30 years. The film stars Ed Helms, Jake Johnson, Hannibal Buress, Jon Hamm, and Jeremy Renner as the five friends. If such a concept sounds entertaining, you’ll probably be happy with what Tag gives you. The film’s pleasures come from watching relatively-functional adults descend into childhood antics and obsessions in the quest to play a children’s game. ![]() ![]() Inspired by a Wall Street Journal article, the film details a game of tag that has been occurring every May between five male friends for the past 30 years. Tag is an absurd R-rated comedy with a serious dark streak that lifts it above some of its more conventional sitcom antics. ![]()
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