Cool Runnings — 4.5/5 (rewatch)
Man, I love this fucking shit. And I think, in all honesty, why this little comedy works so well, is because everyone gets a moment to be serious. I mean, John Candy barely even plays into the comedy of it all. He's gruff, with no desire to be liked. It's an understanding that it's enough that he's just such an obvious contrast to the boys, that the comedy will play. The whole movie is built around that contrast: Jamaican men against the backdrop of white snow, a hot tropical island at the Winter Olympics, a fun-loving culture vs a Swiss culture of efficiency, and generally how silly everyone looks in their incongruity—but the sinew that holds it together is sincerity. Everyone here has a story, a goal, a dream, even the enemies.
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