Ray Romano won’t ruffle any feathers with Somewhere In Queens trailer
Everybody loves Raymond, and it’s going to remain that way
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With his directorial debut, Somewhere In Queens, baritone legend Ray Romano is doing what he does best: Light, New York-based family comedies about the Italian American experience. Bringing fellow sitcom stalwart—and Oscar nominee—Laurie Metcalfe to dinner will seal the deal for anyone looking for a movie they can watch with their parents this spring.
Somewhere In Queens sees Romano in a familiar position. Packing up and moving from Long Island, where Everybody Loves Raymond takes place, to Queens, where Long Island takes place, Romano plays the middle-class owner of a construction company. Naturally, he expects his son, Sticks (Jacob Ward), to take over the business someday. Well, if the boy wasn’t an NBA prospect with scouts hounding him after games.
But that’s only part of the story in this trailer, which is jam-packed with plot and features Romano referring to his wife’s vagina as “the shoot.” It’s also the story of his son’s relationship with a girl (Sadie Stanley) who dared to ask for more meatballs at Sunday dinner. After the relationship falls apart as young love so often does, his basketball game crumbles, and so do his college prospects. So Romano does what any sitcom dad would do: He begs his son’s ex to take him back so that he can get good at basketball again.
Somewhere In Queens seems like the perfectly charming material for Romano to get his directing chops up before he inevitably helms an episode of Pete Davidson’s Bupkis. It’s also the type of material we like to see from the comedian. It certainly beats the activities of his peers, e.g., complaining about comedy on college campuses. Still, Romano did bring Sebastian Maniscalco to the party, so he’s clearly trying to grab that Gen Z demographic.
Somewhere In Queens opens in theaters on April 21.
22 Comments
Nor will he stir any interest in anyone to watch anything he’s doing.
What I’m tired. My brother’s name is Robert. My wife doesn’t like me.
zzzzzzzzz
I bt your ma think’s everybody loves you though.
Packing up and moving from Long Island, where Everybody Loves Raymond takes place, to Queens, where Long Island takes place…This doesn’t make sense. Not as a mere description, nor as a joke.
I knew where the five boroughs were long before I ever lived in NY. However, it wasn’t until I ended up moving to Nassau County, right across the boarder between the county and Queens, that I understood how self righteous folk were from both sides. I found that quote you pulled remarkably funny, but lowball humor sometimes works.
I had to read that twice as well. Technically Queens “takes place” on Long Island.
Right? As does Nassau, where ELR was set… It would have made more sense to say he’s getting an upgrade from 516 to 718. Is area code humor funny? No (unless you’re Ludacris). But at least it makes sense.
Huh. Nobody’s complained that it’s “chute” instead of “shoot” so I guess I’ll do it.
Chute, you beat me to the punch.
Don’t chute your mouth off.
Come on, Romano has done fine work outside of his sitcom. He was outstanding in The Big Sick, and in his Men of a Certain Age he kept up with Andre Braugher, for goodness sakes. Give the guy a little respect.
No
I’d love to see him do some high-octane dramatic stuff. Give him pages of Sorkin dialogue and see what happens.
You should check out the Get Shorty series. It’s not that, but it gives a glimpse into it (in a good way).
Why the snark, and passive aggressive vitriol?! Why has this become the norm on this site? Constant shittiness, looking for some angle to lob non constructive criticism. It’s petty, and it’s killing this site. Report the fucking story, spare me your shit takes.
Because everybody thinks they have to live up to the former glory of the site by trying to top O’Neal in snark and Harris in quality content.
What did Ray do to deserve this site’s snark? Between this and the ridiculous P!nk “article” this site should be put out. You know it’s bad when you’d rather read people’s letters about how bad this site has gotten. But it IS the last “free” site.
I’d pay to make it good again. Well, no I wouldn’t but I’d think about it.
Same, Super Dave, same.
Shoot? Pretty sure it’s chute.
Chute