Anesthetize me

Rating: 2/10 (24 April 2008)

What can sometimes redeem a movie that does not necessarily need a craftily inventive plot or a believable story are characters that are memorable for their bizarrely idiosyncratic humor such as characters from some of the other Judd Apatow movies such as McLovin from Superbad (which actually contained a really compelling story) or the characters in Knocked Up. The plastic characters created in this movie were such mundane clichés, lacking personalities and so unmemorably unfunny that they fail to redeem this unrealistic, poorly conjured story.
The main character goes away and happens to find his ex girlfriend randomly in the same hotel in the same spot he decided to travel to. Then there are some love triangles, they both get jealous and feel bad, it just gets ridiculous and uninteresting to the point where you will ignore the story. It is true, we do not go to see these type of movies for the compelling story lines. We go to laugh. The forced raunchy humor has been done in other movies in a more over the top and intelligent way. The humor just wasn't there. One of the biggest laughs and the only innovative scene comes from showing the main characters crown jewels and gratuitously showing them again and again as his girlfriend breaks up with him. It was stupid, it didn't shock, it wasn't funny, i just didn't care. This movie may be comparable to some of those dull forgettable romantic comedies. They, however, actually have some heart and poignancy. This has none.
The movie is memorable for having the worst sex scenes on film. The scenes were meant to be funny but they just seemed stupid.
For all these reasons the movie was an absolute bore to watch. It wasn't that shocking, the humor was done before and was much better, and the story was absolutely terrible. Not the worst movie because it did contain a few forced laughs.