So who spiked everyone’s drinks with a little dose of awkward at this years MTV Movie Awards?
The MTV Movie Awards should be a night of relaxed fun for the stars who are looking more at Oscar nods than for a shout out from the channel that provides quality television like Teen Mom and Jersey Shore. Instead, it was a night filled with overly-punchy jokes, self-concious presenters, and stars in ridiculously high heels.
The event started out a little rough with British comedian and recently divorced Russel Brand’s opening monologue. After seeing Brand live at an event at Northeastern, I became a fan. Sadly, this was not his shining moment. Not so surprisingly, this year’s bad boy Charlie Sheen was the celebrity that received the most attention from the host. Brand made the obvious drug and alcohol references and like any self respecting middle aged addict, Sheen seemed unfazed and even excited at times to be called on. However, Sheen wasn’t really the one being made fun of. Many of Brand’s jokes were targeted at democracy and American government… a little heavy for an award show I’d say.
Besides those jabs, Brand truly went too far with the one-liner about his failed marriage to pop princess Katy Perry. Don’t ya think thats a little too soon Rus? At least when his pool of celeb criticism grew dry, he always had his oh so clever punchline of the night to fall back on: “Twilight! Hunger Games!”
Russel Brand at the MTV Movie Awards
Luckily, a little heat was taken off Brand with the first presenters of the night: Ted co-stars Mila Kunis and Mark Wahlberg. Disastrous. First, an audience member yelled something at Kunis which upset her and Wahlberg. At home viewers were left in total confusion as the original comment was inaudible, and then Wahlberg’s response was bleeped out. All of this took place in the middle of an already awkward presentation in which the stars had to read from a script that threw Mother Teresa and Bono under the bus as huge dirtbags. If these are the unfortunate lines given to you, just go with it. Don’t apologize Mila and blame it on the teleprompter. At this point, I was thoroughly tempted to change the channel. Good thing I didn’t.
“Mother Teresa. Famous for her charity work. Huge, huge dirtbag.”
By continuing to watch this rapidly unraveling awards show, I was able to get a good laugh out of watching girl after girl cautiously stride out onto the stage while putting all of her body weight on her male co-presenter because her shoes were too damn high! Ladies, do us all a favor and opt for the 9 inch stilettos instead of the 10 inch ones. It really is impressive when you can walk on your own.
That’s it, baby steps Leighton.
After all of this, I breathed a deep sigh of relief at the always hilarious Emma Stone. Emma saved the night. She was the steady rock of hilarity, beauty and inspiration in this storm of awkward. Her award presentation for break through performance had the audience roaring after she revitalized us with her signature style of… less than wholesome family fun language . The now blonde actress barely even looked at a teleprompter and instead chose to gaze at her adorable boyfriend and Spider Man costar, Andrew Garfield.
Later in the evening, Stone was honored with the MTV Trailblazer award and accepted it with incredible poise and grace. Through watery eyes, Emma sent this message to fans:
“Continue to harness your own originality and what makes you unique… because sometimes what sets you apart can feel like a burden, and it’s not. And a lot of the time it’s what makes you great.”
In one night she brought both laughter and tears to the audience and rocked a chic color block peplum dress while doing it. That’s my kind of girl.
Amen for Emma
What other MTV Movie Award moments made you cringe or made you laugh? Let us know!
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