I really didn’t get this movie. I didn’t get the humour, I didn’t get all that tongue-in-cheek, I didn’t get what’s so great about it that it scored so high on RottenTomatoes.com.
The story wasn’t exactly original. It was very predictable. It’s a very normal script actually. But it was the jokes that really bored me. I didn’t see the cleverness in them, I didn’t find them funny and I sure didn’t laugh a lot after the novelty of a new movie wore off.
The acting was another issue. Paul Rudd was OK. Sean William Scott was just as expected. But Christopher Mintz-Plasse was the most disappointing. No longer McLovin’, I couldn’t see the spark that shone so brightly in Superbad. Along with the other kid, Bobb’e J. Thompson, their acting was almost amateurish.
But I would have to blame director David Wain too for not delivering a more cohesive movie. It’s like he’s trying to pull a Judd Apatow but not quite getting there.
The writing as well wasn’t impressive. A lot of turn-of-events were done lazily or just for the lack of better progressional ideas. Maybe on paper they looked great but the delivery just didn’t convince.
Elizabeth Banks was a waste. Jane Lynch and Ken Jeong could have done more. But Jeong really left an impression with his irritating character so he must have done something right.
Towards the end, nothing was funny anymore and I just couldn’t wait for it to end.
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