One of the very worst, least funny movies that I've ever seen

Rating: 2/10 (25 April 2008)

This is without doubt one of the worst and least funny movies that I've ever seen. I have nothing against nudity, male or female, and one of my favorite comedies of all time is the original Harold and Kumar (White Castle), and I mention that just to give you some background. Now that I done that, let me first say that there is nothing whatsoever funny about a penis. If a penis was intrinsically funny, men in locker rooms would all be laughing their heads off. I've been in plenty of locker rooms where there is plenty of penis to be seen, but I've never once seen anyone laughing about it. There just isn't anything funny about a penis. What I've written here is probably ten times as funny as anything in this non-funny movie.
The story is just lame, and is not meaningfully distinct from any one of several similar movies that have been made over the past twenty-five years, most of them being a whole lot funnier than this.
The real test of whether a movie is really funny, is whether the people in the theater are genuinely laughing, or whether a handful of mentally deranged people are letting out the occasional loud shriek every time that someone in the movie says a dirty word. I have nothing against dirty words when they are used in a way that is truly funny, but a dirty word in and of itself is just not funny, any more than a penis in and of itself would be funny.
The first really funny thing in this movie, that made me laugh at all, was just after an hour into the movie, when Peter finally stood up on his surfboard and then something unexpected happened. There was another moderately funny scene shortly after that, when Peter and Sarah were both trying to be as loud as possible while doing it, so that the other one, on the opposite side of the wall, would hear them and be jealous. But that wasn't really all that funny, and this is hardly the first time that I've seen this very joke. Those were the only two moderately funny moments in the entire movie.
I hate movies that are supposed to be funny but that obviously are not, as evidenced by that occasional loud, forced laugh that the same three or four people down toward the front of the theater let go of once every few minutes, usually when there isn't anything that is the least bit funny, unless of course you think that the sight of a penis is funny, or you think that anything that you would not say or want anyone else to say in front of your mother is funny.
This movie is just bad. It isn't the least bit funny. It is just a bad movie. It was a complete waste of time and money. I would not even recommend it for the cost of a DVD rental. The only thing that I can't understand is how on earth this horrible, forgettable movie garnered an 8.2 viewer rating on IMDb. I just can't believe that that many people are that retarded to find anything funny in this movie.
I will never again put any credence in an IMDb viewer rating. The movie that I intend to see next is "Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay". I need something to remind me that I really don't have a problem with humor that is in questionable taste, as long as it really is funny. Hey, I even liked Borat. In fact, Borat was hilarious. But this movie was not in the least bit funny. It is a truly forgettable piece of junk.