Too much tastelessness

Rating: 2/10 (12 January 2007)

This had several aspects that were of great concern - in particular the exposure of minors to bad language and sexual matters.
The first half of the film where minors were involved in such 'funny' scenes as a dog who has intimate relations with a stuffed duck, is particularly bad in this respect. This 'gag' gets played to death. As for that scene where Sandler breaks wind in Hasselhoff's face, there were no minors involved in that scene but it was still utterly tasteless. No warning about this stuff (other than some generic ones about medium coarse language, etc) exists on the video and if anyone picks this off the video or DVD shelf expecting something gentler and more Disneyesque , these scenes will shock the most.
The second half gets better when the tastelessness goes away. These scenes will be fast-forwarded over in this review in the interests of avoiding spoilers but they do show what happens when the fast-forward mechanism in the universal remote gets out of control. They almost atone for the ugliness of the first half. Almost.
Recommended for anyone who thinks that the repetitive playing of scenes involving a , well, lonely dog and a toy duck is hilarious, and that films like these represent the very pinnacle of freedom.