His comedies are all the same anyways. Guy needs to be more creative if he thinks Woke culture is crippling his creativity. I think it's an excuse for his lack of..."being funny".
The Hangover is a great comedy and it mostly works because of the CAST. Putting people in weird and obtuse situations is one thing, but how they react and interact with each other is what sells the comedy. If Galifianakis wasn't in those movies, maybe they wouldn't have been so big. Part I and III are terrible though, just beating the same jokes into the ground.
Due Date is a foul mouthed version of Planes, Trains and Automobiles. The latter film is leaps and bounds better than harsh comedy.
School for Scoundrels is a film that simply doesn't work because it's not funny. I don't like Jon Heder and Billy bob Thornton is just trying to find the success he had with Bad Santa.
Both Road Trip and Old School are films I enjoyed on some basic level in my youth. I doubt I'd find them funny today.
All his movies are "guy" movies and the females in them are thinly written and used sparingly. Watch Old School again and tell me what Dr. Meredith Grey does other than be the object of Luke Wilson's affection?
Philips might just be made that people accused him of being extremely creepy and forceful while on the set of
Project X. "Todd Phillips is a very bad man. Both he and his team are openly abusive, manipulative, sleazy, and predatory both on and off set. This is an open secret." I haven't seen Joker and it looks good. What I do hear about it though is that the majority of the film relies on the performance and if that was taken away, then the film would be decent at best.