Puerile, unfunny nonsense

Rating: 4/10 (25 June 2014)

I'm afraid I have to trash this movie. I hated it. I'm angry at myself for sitting through the whole thing even though I realised after two minutes that I hated it.
The only scene I truly enjoyed was the fight scene between Jillian Bell and Jonah Hill. In my books, Bell was the only truly funny person in this movie.
I found the bromance relationships between Schmidt and Jenko, and then between Jenko and Zook, to be forced and unrealistic. In the end the making fun of homoeroticism made me uncomfortable. Look, it's like they're gay! Why is that so funny? It's not. The bantering between them was ridiculous.
The relationship between Maya and Schmidt was absurd. The Captain Dickson character didn't work for me at all. I wanted him to stop. I couldn't figure out what that police complex was about. Why was Jenko like some Terminator Spiderman guy? I don't know. So many questions.
This is yet another American movie to portray college life like some orgiastic drink-and-drug fest. It's not like that.
The students in this movie were too old to be playing their parts. The jokes about Schmidt and Jenko being too old fell flat because of it.
It's derisory that this movie currently gets 8 on IMDb.com. It's worth about a 4. I'd bump it up to 5 to acknowledge the scenes with Bell, but then when I think about wasting two hours watching this movie it makes me angry, so I'm lowering that back down to 4. Maybe you have to see the first movie to get this one, but I definitely won't see it now.