What a Disappointing Start to 2014

Rating: 3/10 (10 January 2014)

This is my first ever film review and I felt the need to write it only because of the incredibly high ratings given to this film.
I have to agree with the other reviewers who gave this film a low mark and am baffled as to the hype and high scores given by the critics. They certainly fooled me.
After reading a number of critic reviews I went to see this film on New Years Day evening and was really looking forward to it and expecting to be highly entertained and start the new year with a real feel-good factor.
Whilst the acting was pretty good I found the film depressingly long, unnecessarily wordy, slow moving and frankly pretty boring as did the other members of my group whose ages ranged from 21 to 57.
As a regular cinema goer I understand that characters have to be developed and that can take time but this seemed to take forever and even then there seemed to be no likable characters. I am still trying to work out how this could be described as a comedy, I don't think I laughed on more than a few occasions throughout the entire film.
One comment summed it up for me and that was "it was OK but I wouldn't recommend any one else to rush out and see it"
I quite often watch films that I like more than once. I have seen this once and that is more than enough for me. It goes into the category of over-hyped, probably will be over awarded, and instantly forgettable.