Oh lord, I'm sincerely surprised that a movie as bad as this one could exist upon the big screen. Ed is a 1996 'family' comedy staring Matt LeBlanc (Joey from Friends) and a monkey as they play baseball, and that's pretty much it. There are events that happen, but as for a plot, this film almost doesn't have one at all. It's as if the people writing the film took every single cliche, trope, storyline, and idea from any sports film and mashed them together into this 'family friendly' disaster, then they could make a movie. I could hardly sit through the film with a straight face, its honestly pretty awful, and i'm pretty stunned LeBlanc could find work after such a misfire this film was. The acting is either incredibly lazy, bland, or simply horrible- and the humor in the film, if you can call it that at all, is so incredibly juvenile and silly it's as if the writers asked a 4 year old to make jokes for the film. That all being said, Ed isn't a boring film. It's a predictable one, full of cliches, formulaic tropes, and a large overabundance of sound effects, but it isn't boring. I would say that I was entertained watching this bad movie, although there was so much to unpack from its truly horrible nature. In the end, Ed would be today the equivalent of a straight to video release, never making it to theaters worldwide like it did. But somehow, the film breaks logic, and earned itself some time in the sun, and can possible be the worst sports film ever made. It's lazy, stupid, predictable, and there is little to no plot. You don't know what is happening, why it is happening or why to care, and it's entertaining to watch the whole mess unfold, but it is certainly not in any way pleasurable.
My Rating: 1.5/10
Review of Ed
