good for a few laughs

Rating: 6/10 (21 December 2004)

I was afraid this movie might suck, but it was actually pretty funny. Not all the jokes hit dead-on, but enough did that it kept me chuckling most of the time. Although the film proceeds along a predictable path of good guys fighting bad guys, I thought it was interesting to find out (in the DVD commentary) that the director wanted to end the movie by essentially having the bad guy defeat the good guys. I have no idea why he would think a light hearted goof-ball comedy should suddenly get all serious and realistic at the end, but I actually thought the fact that he did was pretty funny in itself. All in all, a good rental movie.