Amy Schumer hosted the MTV Movie Awards Awards like a seasoned pro and if you’ve see her show Inside Amy Schumer, you know her brand of self-effacing, uncomfortable humor. Her pre-taped parodies sent up of some of the year’s biggest movies. A Boyhood spoof, had her telling a boy that she was going to end up yelling at strangers in The Bachelor’s hot tub, but her best lines were onstage alone:
“Magic Mike XXL. It really is magic. Anytime I watch those guys, at least two of my fingers disappear. It’s so weird.”
“Furious 7 —which is what they’re calling the people that saw Jupiter Ascending. If you don’t get that, that’s why that joke works.”
“This drought in California is horrible. I can’t. And I just found out about it right now. Like all I can think about for another couple minutes. Support your Congress thing, and like, science. And just tell Wall Street, like, bring back our water.”
Shailene Woodley was voted the most popular girl at school, I mean at the 2015 Movie Awards, being that she was in the tearjerker school play, I mean MOVIE, where she croaks it. She accepted multiple popcorn prizes, including a special one for being an MTV Trailblazer. (Having been on the scene for 15 minutes, this seems a bit odd but you know, the popular kids LOVE her!) She also got Best Female Performance and Best Kiss (with Ansel Elgort) for her role in The Fault in Our Stars, which was Movie of the Year. Really? OK, well that should tell you how seriously ANYBODY takes this awards show. Jimmy Kimmel introduced Kevin Hart by making fun of his height relentlessly:
“They said Kevin was too small to be a comedy giant… his friends called him Eddie Smurfy, Tracy Munchkin, and Bernie McNugget.”
Kevin Hart IS funny (sometimes) but after enduring Kimmel’s jabs, he and his tiny son and daughter (a visual trick to make him look tall?) picked up the Comedic Genius Award. The “G” word? Really? OK, if you say so tweens. But really the whole shebang was one BIG (shameless) excuse for franchise movies to get their casts assembled for a photo opp, and to present various awards together – and ALL of the big upcoming movies did; The Avengers: Age of Ultron‘s cast gave Robert Downey, Jr. a Generation Award (meaning he’s of the MTV generation and not this current one, I guess?) Teen-genre films like The Maze Runner, Mockingjay, and Neighbors all won multiple prizes; Magic Mike XXL presented JLo with the Best Scared as Sh*t Performance for The Boy Next Door; The Pitch Perfect 2 cast pitched their new movie; Dwanye Johnson had a massive firestorm of an ad for his upcoming disaster flick, San Andreas, and Amy Schumer’s comedy vehicle, Trainwreck was mentioned many times. Charlie XCX performed as did FallOut Boy, but as Amy Schumer said at the top of the show, the M in MTV has been missing for decades:
“I don’t want the winners to worry about their speeches going too long, because MTV is the one network that refuses to play music.”
Exactly. Here are the night’s big winners:
Movie of the Year: The Fault in Our Stars
Best Male Performance: Bradley Cooper, American Sniper
Best Kiss: Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort, The Fault in Our Stars
Best Duo: Zac Efron and Dave Franco, Neighbors
Best Comedic Performance: Channing Tatum, 22 Jump Street
Best Scared as Sh*t Performance: Jennifer Lopez, The Boy Next Door
Breakthrough Performance: Dylan O’Brien, The Maze Runner
Best Female Performance: Shailene Woodley, The Fault in Our Stars
Best Hero: Dylan O’Brien, The Maze Runner
Best Shirtless Performance: Zac Efron, Neighbors
Best Fight: Dylan O’Brien vs. Will Poulter, The Maze Runner
Best WTF Moment: Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne, Neighbors
Best Villain: Meryl Streep, Into the Woods
Best On-Screen Transformation: Elizabeth Banks, Mockingjay—Part 1
Best Musical Moment: Jennifer Lawrence, Mockingjay—Part 1
MTV Trailblazer: Shailene Woodley
Comedic Genius: Kevin Hart
MTV Generation Award: Robert Downey Jr.
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