Surprisingly Enjoyable

Rating: 7/10 (23 June 2014)

If you are a fan of dumb humor in the vein of Talladega Nights or Dumb and Dumber, (whose sequel was featured in the pre-movie trailers), then this movie will deliver a decent amount of laughs for your movie-going dollar. If not for a few scenes, this movie could have even clawed its way to a weak 8 rating as a comedy for me. The movie looked good, with nice beauty shots and composition of scenes throughout, including car chases and crowd shots. The acting was also competent, especially when Hill plays the straight man facing a barrage of jokes about his age. The movie also includes a few references to other movies which helps to add a little depth to the humor. The movie loses points in scenes where they depend on a stream of out-of-place profanity in place of wit. The ending of the movie is also a problem as the plot loses some of its focus there which was previously easy to follow for the majority of the film. This also added length to the film that was not needed overall. The ending credits are also some of the funniest I've seen.
Weak 7 is my vote. This is probably a 6 or less (Rental/Netflix) if you aren't a fan of dumb humor.
SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT Unfortunately, Seth Rogen makes a cameo in the closing credits; however, this brief exposure to his comedy kryptonite did not ruin the movie for me as I stuck my fingers in my ears and averted my eyes until the crisis passed.