Opinion | Pete Davidson's 'King of Staten Island' is charming — but we've seen it before

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Opinion | Noah Berlatsky: ''The King of Staten Island' would have done its subject more justice if it had figured out how to include more of Davidson in the film. Or less. Or both.' - NBCNewsTHINK

and belatedly comes of age. Davidson plays Scott, a 24-year-old Long Island high school dropout who lives with his mom and spends all his time watching bad TV and smoking pot. Scott's father was a fireman who died on the job when Scott was 8, and that trauma is brought up again when his mother Margie starts to date another fireman,

Scott predictably hates Ray and tries to break him and his mother up. Eventually he connects with Ray's colleagues, many of whom knew his father. You can guess most of the story from there.trapped inside a gangly star vehicle. Scott, the wounded white guy who needs to grow up, is surrounded by more original and interesting characters who don't ever get the space to follow their own narrative arcs.

Margie, who lost her difficult, heroic husband, and is dating again after 16 years, seems worthy of a""-type miniseries. Scott's on-again, off-again girlfriend, Kelsey , is determined to get a job for the city working in development so she can help rejuvenate Staten Island. Her fumbling, determined, idiosyncratic passion for urban planning would be worth exploring at some length.

 

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THINK Pete Davidson is who you call when you can't get Jack Black....SoNotFunny

THINK Don't need the story of his tattoos Whatever he found in getting his he wants to share w/others while they dine like a violin in the background. He finds a purpose in it and it gives him motivation to improve himself and find worth. You missed that.

THINK Usually if a critic hates it I'm all in and the movie is actually at least decent. Critics seem like bitter jack socks who never made it in the industry

THINK NoOneCares

THINK Wrong. That is a good movie.

THINK The guy is a junkie disaster.

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THINK Long Island... really?

THINK Ouch. It looked bad.

THINK Haha a few paragraphs in the critic says “Long Island”, isnt it Staten Island?

THINK I would like to watch it, but not for 20 bucks..

THINK It’s great movie. Wouldn’t change a thing. Very enjoyable.

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THINK More CrapOnDemand.

THINK Whatever, I'm mad as HELL am not going to take this anymore

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