Paint

Paint

Carl Nargle, Vermont’s #1 public television painter, is convinced he has it all: a signature perm, custom van, and fans hanging on his every stroke… until a younger, better artist steals everything (and everyone) Carl loves.

  • Released: 2023-04-07
  • Runtime: 96 minutes
  • Genre: Comedy, Drama
  • Stars: Owen Wilson, Michaela Watkins, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Ciara Renée, Lusia Strus, Stephen Root, Denny Dillon, Evander Duck Jr., Rob Figueroa, Noa Graham, Elisabeth Henry-Macari, Michael Pemberton, Joel Leffert, Sonia Darmei Lopes, Elizabeth Loyacano
  • Director: Brit McAdams
 Comments
  • paulcarr1302 - 14 May 2024
    One bad choice that people can't seem to get over
    The makers oof this film made one terrible choice. That choice was sticking with making Carl look and talk like Bob Ross even though they were unable to get permission to make a Bob Ross movie. Based on the reviews here, that seems to be something that people are unable to get over. They apparently felt fooled by the look and never took the time to find out what the movie was actually about before jumping in. Not uncommon among movie goers, and also not uncommon for them to blame the movie instead of themselves for being too lazy to look something up.

    This movie was an average "learning to value what's really important in life" movie. It broke no new ground, but it was not as awful as people want to paint it to be. Wilson delivered the same type of performance we should be used to by now. He was charming and likeable even when the character didn't deserve to be likeable. The very underrated Michaela Watkins did a very good job as well. The rest of the cast was pretty bland though Root, McLendon-Covey, and Strus (in what appears to just be a non-androgynous version of her character in 50 First Dates) delivered a couple of small laughs.

    Overall, this was a fun, light-hearted film that wasn't great but also was not awful and is worth one watch. It is nowhere near as bad as people who can't get over the fact that they blindly thought they were walking into a Bob Ross biopic want you to believe. In my opinion, if you can't take two minutes to research what you are using your time and money for, then that's on you. Take some accountability.
  • benpulford-82589 - 2 March 2024
    Absolutely bl**dy brilliant
    Wonderful. Brilliant. Uplifting. Warm. Friendly. Proper entertainment. Complete and utter perfectly sensible nonsense. Stupid. A 'cult movie' hit. It is said the film is not based on Bob Ross from Vance Refrigeration. But it clearly isn't not conversely incorrectly the case, not. When I first saw a certain painter of strange and slightly disturbing picture-perfect Christmas post-card strangeness, paintings, not always with snow, I hated the show. I first saw it as a thing during Covid-19 lockdown as a repeat from yesteryear. There was nothing else on tellie, and it was painful flicking through the channels and seeing the disturbing painter painting his disturbing perfect world paintings with their ridiculous bright green-yellow leafy foreground highlights in front of the ubiquitous mountain-range in the far wonderful, sublime background. There was nothing else on TV worth watching. Because terrestrial TV is unbelievably lazy, the series was-is repeated now, a few years later and I love it and the crazy beautiful disturbingly unreal, sad, whimsical paintings. So when I discovered there was a movie based on the master and his work, I had to watch it. It's the only film my son had to buy on a streaming service. But it's worth every penny. I laughed and laughed. We laughed and laughed and the ending is perfect. The legend lives on, just like the strange, disturbing, perfect, aseptic images the Meister created back in the 80's. This film is a wonderful tribute to a truly wonderful generous spirited good man, a gentle man. The cast and crew did a great job with this film and clearly no money. But then it was made during Covid-19 lockdown when our pointless governments managed to ruin everything, including our economies and our children's futures and spent all the money allowing a global pandemic to happen in the first place, spending all our money during it on nonsensical, pointless 'stuff' and then giving themselves a big pat on the back for allegedly sorting their own ineptitudes out. Too far? Ok. Gone off on a tangent. This film is great. It is true entertainment. Thankyou.