It was fun when we were all discovering Wahlberg's latent sense of humor, watching him pop up as a supporting character in Huckabees or The Departed with crack comic timing, or even parody himself on SNL as a good-humored response to Andy Samberg's brilliant Mark Wahlberg Talks To Animals. But Samberg was onto something in that skit that we all chose to ignore.
We laugh with Wahlberg when he's playing off his trademark intensity, but we laugh at him when he doesn't realize he's still being way too intense to be funny. The way he talks to the chicken? That's how he talks to everyone in the scene with him in all of his comedies, and it's been funny this whole time because we never put up with it for longer than a minute-long bit in a scene.
Read the full review of The Other Guys:
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Rant-Mark-Wahlberg-Is-Not-That-Funny-And-We-Need-To-Stop-Telling-Him-He-Is-20013.html
Basically, the author's point is that Mark is too hard to endure when you get a full movie of his intensity and speech patterns in a comedy. And essentially Andy Samberg was onto that when highlighting Mark's intensity in the SNL spoof.
Enjoy!
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