![]() ![]() ![]() That may be a specific portrait in some circles, but to me it would feel a tad broad.Īnyway, The Marked Ones sets itself apart by not really being a Paranormal Activity movie at all. Lest you think I'm horribly racist or something, I'd be just as confused to see a Paranormal Activity film set in the Irish slums, cast exclusively with clover-picking midget gingers. ![]() But it made me wonder if Landon brought any first-hand cultural experience to his screenplay, or if he simply cribbed everything but the ghost portions from old Carlos Mencia sketches. From the ultra-religious, Spanish-speaking grandma doing shots of tequila, to the put-upon sidekick who can't bring girls back to his apartment because "there's, like, fifty people living there, homes", no chimichanga is left un-fried. And so it is that we rip the plastic off another calendar to find a slate of post-awards-season-pageantry/pre-summer-spectacle garbage waiting for us.Īnd what better series to kick things off than Paranormal Activity? With the excruciating fourth installment, The Little Franchise That Could finally petered out, creatively and financially.* But writer-turned-director Christopher Landon and uber-producers Oren Peli and Jason Blum seem to have taken a note from the newly Disney-fied Star Wars universe, opting to churn out spin-offs in addition to the regular, numbered sequels.įirst off the assembly line is Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, a picture so bursting at the seams with Latin-American stereotypes that I can't be sure if the filmmakers are catering to a particular audience or ridiculing them (case in point: one of the main characters wears a couple of amusing T-shirts at the beginning of the film-one reads, "I only look illegal" the other, "Powered by Frijoles"). The multiplex is one of a handful of places where it's acceptable to replace "Happy" with "Crappy" when describing the New Year. ![]()
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