Good summer tonic!

Rating: 8/10 (25 July 2004)

This is hardly a perfect film. The plotting and logic of the film seem to trip along at breakneck speed(of course,I'm willing to buy the fact that that was the way it was intended)to the point of delirium. And it does seem to gloss over some of the finer points of San Diego(To echo what one person who wrote on the Imdb about the show who hailed from that area). But this film was still LMAO funny! Steve Carell and, to a lesser degree,Paul Rudd really do steal their scenes! Ferrell is a blast as the overconfident,vain and somewhat doltish title character and Applegate earned every penny of her paycheck not cracking up through too many scenes. Offhand,this is a 3 out of 4 Star film,good tonic for those who grow eary of heavy-handed sci-fi/actioner movies being cranked out over the summer.