Laugh out loud mindless fun

Rating: 8/10 (2 July 2005)

Ben Stiller manages to take silly humor and keep it funny. Playing a stereotypical "bad guy" with just a little bit of inadequacy coming in. Sure he's in shape now, but inside he's still the same fat guy. But Stiller keeps it fresh instead of cliché', or maybe he just makes the cliché' hilarious. The rest of the cast very good, it takes a while to figure out, where do I know ? them from. The storyline is there to showcase the humor, Vince Vaughan is the "no goal" (easier to attain that way) good guy. With his wacky crew of misfits, Alan Tudyk shines as the pirate. And every time Jason Bateman's Pepper opened his mouth, I was laughing. David Hasselhoff and William Shatner have very tongue in cheek cameos. And Chuck Norris was funny without saying a word. Best viewed with a group of friends with a twisted sense of humor!