SPOILER ALERT! This movie was CR**! Hurting pets for laughs?

Rating: Null/10 (29 December 2004)

I just finished watching this unmitigated piece of total human waste.
The movie itself is just sooooo not funny. I kept waiting for something to happen and sure enough nothing did. Helloooo! There is a saying in movies that in order for them to work you have to suspend your disbelief. Impossible in this piece of crud.
Will Farrell must have been the only actor desperate enough for work to take this role. Christina must have done it for the money because she was between gigs. The attempts at humor are so flat as to be embarrassing.
It actually started out with a decent premise of self absorbed anchormen of the 70's and a woman trying to break into the world of anchors both locally and nationally ala Barbara Walters, Connie Chung, etc, but within 15 minutes I was squirming at how bad it was. ELF was almost as bad.
The script looks as though they had no idea of what to say so they just let the cast try and come up with lines and it shows. I just can't get over how bad this movie was and how UNFUNNY it was.
Will's character just didn't ever seem to make sense. A jazz flutist who is a moron? Terrible pickup lines that make you squirm yet a lovable but nice guy who has little experience with women but is a great lover? None of this made any sense. The dialog is just horrendous as well and dragging as well. I mean dragging.
It was convoluted as well. It just seemed to go all over the place without reason. OR laughs.
The weatherman character was embarrassing at how badly it was done. Very unfunny as well.
THEN they kill a pet dog (or it appears to be done) for laughs or something as I am not sure but whatever jerk decided this was a good plot device needs serious help. The crew and cast should have stopped it dead in it's tracks as well. HURTING A PET TO PROMOTE A PLOT DEVICE IN A COMEDY??? WTF were they thinking. Yeah the dog lives but what a horrible plot device.
This movie is just plain offensive in how poorly written it was and it is beyond me as to the amount of people who saw it and thought it was funny. Talk about playing to the lowest common denominator.
What is wrong with Hollywood and just how bad is it that they can't find writers who can write funny stuff that this crud is foisted off on us.Do these people writing this watch the finished product and laugh at it or are they just too embarrassed to admit it was terrible and laugh to prop themselves up in front of each other rather than admit it was crud?
Something else. I can spot shill praise a mile away and there is so much of it on here as to be sad. Look at the style of writing from all these people who praise. You know ANYONE who writes like that that is not a professional? Sad for studios to have to hire people to heap false praise on this terrible movie. AND several of them if not all sound very similar in style of writing.