Good talent put to waste with a contrived script.

Rating: 3/10 (29 April 2003)

The SNL skits I found funny, but placing such a short one line joke into a feature narrative isn't easy. The storyline is decent but not too exciting - what is worse is some of the totally excessive and forced dialog of the side characters (a la Kevin Smith's less polished moments). The ending is very uninventive, typical of comedy writers who view the ending as "we just wanna wrap it up fast" as opposed to making a strong comedic punctuation. This film would have been better if Farrel and Katan had a good long schedule and were allowed to sit down with the others (some of whom are pretty solid actors) and improvise some more scenes and situations. However, with the limited cartoony characters they play, it's not an easy task to make it so interesting to begin with. That said, there are some good simple laughs here, but nothing of the level of humor that even a good Laurel and Hardy film can bring.