Owen Wilson’s ‘Paint’ Is a Bizarrely Unfunny Bob Ross Satire

), the last of whom was once his true-love girlfriend before fame and betrayal spoiled their romance.

Considering that Carl is the type of full-of-himself buffoon who says, "I feel like sometimes being the total package makes it hard for people to see the gift inside,” he bristles at Ambrosia stealing his thunder—and his audience.

McAdams and Wilson are committed to the notion of Carl as a placid Zen-like figure but they can’t make up their minds about whether he’s callously cocky, cluelessly tender, or merely depressed. The balance between soothing Ross-ian mildness and roiling inner turmoil doesn’t take, and though a couple of gags land—such as Tony understanding that Carl’s silence is his way of madly screaming—Wilson never figures out how to mirthfully amalgamate his protagonist’s contradictions.

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