Film review: Pete Davidson in Judd Apatow's 'The King of Staten Island'
, despite his confessional brashness, was rolling out a brand rather than revealing a distinctive talent.is the latest class in the ongoing "Intro to Pete Davidson" course: Davidson co-wrote the screenplay with Apatow andscribe Dave Sirus, drawing from his experience as a Staten Island native whose fireman father died on 9/11 when he was a kid.
Davidson plays Scott, a 24-year-old aspiring tattoo artist suffering from ADHD, depression, Crohn's disease and a ferocious case of Peter Pan syndrome. Still living with mom Marge , a nurse, and sister Claire , who just graduated from high school, Scott spends his time with a trio of childhood homies stuck in a similar phase of arrested development. The boys, a band of literal basement dwellers, while away the hours smoking pot, playing video games and razzing each other.
Scott freaks out when Marge finally tells him about her relationship, triggered by his unpleasant first encounter with Ray — and by the fact that the guy is a firefighter, like his late father. Despite a few attempts at bonding to placate Marge, the hostility between Scott and Ray boils over. But the director minimizes the moralism and keeps things moving — a good thing because, as usual, emotional logic is not a forte; neither Scott's extreme initial reaction to Ray nor his eventual maturation feel entirely organic, and the link between the protagonist's particular set of problems and the death of his father is never satisfyingly explored.
What the film has in abundance are the kind of detail and texture that give the story, for all its fidelity to formula, room to breathe as well as a gradual emotional pull. The things Apatow and co. get right range from tiny to fundamental .is also perhaps Apatow's best-looking film — a bittersweet achievement, given that it won't be widely seen on the big screen.
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