I’m pretty sure Rex Reed has a major hard-on for Jason Bateman. The New York Observer film critic rips apart Bateman’s new movie Identity Thief co-starring, as Reed puts it, “tractor-sized Melissa McCarthy.” That’s pretty offensive! Reed goes on like a woman scored referring to McCarthy’s character as a “humongous creep” and a “female hippo.” It’s not just McCarthy’s role in this movie Reed doesn’t like he referees to her as “a gimmick comedian who has devoted her short career to being obese and obnoxious with equal success.” All the while he gushes over Bateman like a school-girl. Reed is befuddled why such a “bankable” star like Bateman who’s “so charming, talented, attractive and versatile get stuck in so much dreck (a.k.a ‘trash’ for less hoity-toity).” Continue reading →