I am not pleased.

Rating: 6/10 (2 April 2000)

Maybe I hold John Cusack up to unrealistic standards. I've fallen in love with every one of his movies since I was a teenager, so I had no reason to believe that this movie would be anything less than phenomenal.
The movie is kind of...slow. It was about two hours long, but by the last half hour I was praying for the end.
I was expecting something funnier. There were some really funny moments, but overall I would never call the film a comedy. Jack Black absolutely stole the show, and I truly believe that the movie would have been a complete disaster without him.
The lead female role is annoying. I spent the entire two hours wondering what she had been in before and why the hell she cut her bangs so short. (She's from Denmark, and hasn't been in anything I've ever seen. I still don't know about the bangs.)
There were a lot of references to obscure bands, which bothered me because I felt like I was missing the joke a lot of the time.
I found myself laughing at things that were only slightly funny. I think I was trying to justify spending $8.50 to see the movie, but I still left feeling ripped off and angry.