More tragic than comic

Rating: 2/10 (3 September 2007)

I am not a big writer of reviews on this site but having wasted £4 renting this dross I felt compelled to say something.
The movie starts off with promise the documentary leanings introducing the characters works nicely with William Fichtner's dry mannerisms giving reason for hope. However around the 20 minute mark you begin to realise that the plot is going nowhere fast.
So it's a comedy you can deal with an average plot as long as there is room to laugh right? Wrong! The laughs are few and far between whilst the physical elements of comedy just degenerate into lame toilet humour.
Will Ferrell just about does enough to save his dignity in this movie, but John Heder is so annoying that by the end of the movie you wish he really would get his head chopped off, along with Amy Poehler and Will Arnett who badly attempt to play the bad guys as Stranz and Fairchild Van Waldenberg with some God awful acting.
The only people who would find this movie even remotely funny must be 15 years old or less, any semi intelligent adults would struggle to even muster a chuckle as the jokes are so predictable and turgid you could have seen them coming from last week.
Just terrible.