Ultimately, The King of Staten Island very much ends up being the kind of movie one would make if they asked Pete Davidson a litany of questions about his life, then filmed the answers. If you don’t care, you might not connect. There’s literally an early scene at a wedding where one character tells Scott, “Your dark sense of humor doesn’t work for me.” It might not be a huge stretch for Davidson, but it’s the natural progression for Apatow, meaning you might laugh, cry, or encounter a mixture of the two.
