Someone Forgot The Laughs

Rating: Null/10 (9 November 2010)

I liked the idea. I liked the character from "Forgetting Sarah Marshall." I fully anticipated, and wanted, a hilarious gross-out farce. Sadly, someone forgot to include the laughs, as they tried to get us to care about these characters. The opening was funny, depicting rocker Aldous Snow's pretentious fall, but the laughs soon dried up. This film reminded me of the flawed and ill- structured "Funny People." Both films desperately wanted to you laugh and care about the characters. Both films failed. "Funny People" was the better of the two. It had the head start of a better script and better acting. (But, come on, who really wants to see Adam Sandler in another dramatic turn?) A disappointment.