As Dull As The Hangover

Rating: 3/10 (30 October 2011)

LIke The Hangover, the main characters were uninteresting and unlikable and had no chemistry. One was simply annoying. And that guy was Jason Sudeikis. What the heck was he doing there? How did he get the part?
Anyway, like in The Hangover, the main characters experienced wildly, fantastic, knee- slapping events. And just as in The Hangover, I just stared blankly at the screen watching these guys try to make me laugh. I saw the cues where I was supposed to laugh but I couldn't. As time passed, it became more and more evident this film wasn't going to get funnier. So now the only thing that kept me watching was to see how the bosses got knocked off. Interestingly, The Hangover had a similar gimmick-- to find out what happened to the bachelor-- to keep people hanging around until the end.
Despite my curiosity about the fate of the bosses, the shear dullness of this film kept me from watching the remaining 15 minutes. To be fair, I did laugh a few times. The film started out promising in the first 5 minutes, but just sputtered from there until the finish line (which I didn't really get to.)
It felt like there was an opportunity here that was missed. This film had a good premise. Would it be a black comedy like Heathers? Or would it poke fun at the common, mundane work environment like Office Space? I laughed just thinking about it. The actual product ended up being neither and was just poorly executed. It would've been better as a half-hour TV show. In fact, it felt like one-- except it was stretched into 2 hours.
Watch Office Space instead. Jennifer Aniston is in that too.