Can Key and Peele graduate to the big screen?
You're watching Beyond The Trailer's review of Keanu...
Well, Key kinda already has graduated to the
big screen, appearing in Let's Be Cops, Horrible
Bosses 2, Pitch Perfect 2, Tomorrowland and
Vacation. In that same time period Peele has
appeared in...zero films. Ouch - that's gotta
make it a little bit awkward between the two
comedians who first met working on MTV before
getting their own show on Comedy Central.
That sketch show, which was as topical as
it was hilarious, first popped up on the mainstream
radar with their popular Obama "anger translator"
sketch, but continued to post viral sketches
like Substitute Teacher - which is actually
the most popular video on Comedy Central's
YouTube channel with ninety-three millions
views! In fact, all of the top videos are
from Key and Peele, yet Amy Schumer got a
movie first and her most popular video on
Comedy Central's YouTube channel has just
seven point one million views...? Whaaa - ?! Side
note, YouTube's been real good to Comedy Central,
no? Anyway, while Key and Peele are signed
to do a Substitute Teacher movie, first they've
got Keanu - and they are all in, ending their
sketch show last year. I mean if this doesn't
work, what is Peele going to do?! He is moving
behind the camera, writing and directing his
first movie, a horror film, for Jason Blum.
Let's hope Key and Peele director Peter Atencio,
who also directs here, is in tight with Key.
The pitch for Keanu is very clever. Key and
Peele are YouTube stars. So are kittens. Put
them together aaaaand - you have a movie that
maybe should've been on YouTube Red? Yes,
Key and Peele have never been tested on the
big screen, and neither have kittens. They
could have no power here. I mean, maybe the
big screen version of Key and Peele looks
like this? (Central Intelligence) And while
Keanu is a pop culture trigger, is the joke
a tad old considering Sad Keanu has just been
replaced by Sad Affleck? Let's just hope that
if moviegoers do go to see Keanu, they also
notice Jason Mitchell in his first role after
playing Easy E in Straight Outta Compton.
So, will Keanu put everyone's career into
hyperdrive?! Or is this just a pit-stop as
they continue on the paths they're already on...?
