Trainwreck

This movie is funny, but it's also pretty dumb. I really hate romantic comedies, like, they pain me to watch. A group of my friends wanted to watch Bridget Jone's Diary and I got to the part where Hugh Grant was a pig and was cheating on whats-her-face and I left. By in large, romantic comedies drive me up a wall with their sexist plot devices (manic pixie dream girls, the inexperienced virgin, the clutzy nerd-turned-hot girl, the soulless "other women", a boyfriend/husband completes a woman, the career-woman who is saved by a man--need I go on). But now lets talk about Trainwreck. It's dumb. It's goofy. But Amy Schumer's character is a frisky ass girl who likes sex, and smokes weed. There are obvious tropes with her character in regards to her love life (she has daddy issues so she can't commit) that are problematic, but for her personality in general, it's pretty good for a romantic comedy.

Trainwreck has some pretty dumb jokes in it. There are of course the typical gay jokes that wouldn't be too bad if the punchline wasn't "Dude that's really gay". Some of my favorite parts of the movie is when John Cena is in it, and whenever he's on screen there is always a gay joke at his expense. There's one scene where he's yelling at a guy and instead of saying "I will fuck you up" he just says "I will fuck you" and then the joke is ruined when the guy has to point out how that sounds pretty gay. In my opinion the gay jokes, which I didn't really appreciate to begin with, would have been funnier if it wasn't pointed out that John Cena was always making homosexual innuendos. But apparently John Cena didn't really have a script for his part in the movie which is super impressive and considering that, he was actually extremely funny. In the movie scene that I mentioned before, Amy Schumer and the other woman in the movie theater are sort of grinning-laughing and apparently that's because they didn't know what he was going to say, so that's impressive.
In the movie the female rom com trope that was portrayed was the "is broken until she finds a good boyfriend and then is fixed" combined with the "daddy issues" character. The problem with this is that it perpetuates the idea that women need men to complete them and if you are a broken individual with lots of baggage and issues then you should look for someone to heal you instead of figuring your issues out on your own so you can be comfortable with yourself and not be dependent on an individual--this isn't even a gender thing, it just isn't healthy to be so dependent on one person to hold you together, and this movie glorifies that kind of relationship. And yes, I probably am overanalyzing this stupid rom com thats best joke is about a penis, but I think it's worth pointing out that the fact that these unhealthy tropes have been normalized through the media.
Her dad in this movie is a big partier and he sleeps around a lot. He was dumped by her mother because he had cheated on her so much and he told Amy Schumer's character when she was little that monogamy is unrealistic so she has believed that and lived like him her whole life. He's in a old people home and he's kind of just this angry old guy, so that plays a big role in her feelings throughout the movie. I hate the "daddy-issues" trope because it makes light of something that can actually be pretty serious, and the solution to "daddy-issues" in movies is always to find someone that will fix it. In this case it isn't really serious, but her self-destructive party-girl tendencies seem to disappear when she's with Bill Hader.
I really liked Bill Hader's character. I really like Bill Hader in general, and the fact that his character is a orthopedic surgeon makes it so much better. I think it's just so they could put Lebron James in the movie and have it not be completely random. It was like they put a bunch of characteristics into a hat and pulled them out one by one to make his character; it's just a pretty random amalgamation of traits. There isn't much to say about it other than Bill Hader is a goofy dude and I am a fan.

Despite how much is wrong with this movie, it isn't blatant enough to really be a problem if you don't really want to notice it. There's some good dumb humor in it and if you can just shut off your brain for two hours it's decent. It is important to point out the sexist and problematic undertones of any movie, because they are so normalized audiences don't really pay any attention to what they are actually watching. It's also debated whether or not this movie passes the Bechdel tests because, while there are conversations that aren't about men, they have to do with family and kids, which is a quintessential stereotype of women, and they also have to do with work, which is a men's magazine, so it's debatable.