Just not ready

Rating: 5/10 (9 August 2007)

Andy Sandberg and friends are just not ready to make a feature. It's a problem here, because they don't quite understand what it takes to make a movie. It's also obvious in their interviews. The movie had so much potential, but the humor was all over the place. It didn't know if it was a farce, a spoof, and slapstick romp, etc. Further, the characters all sounded a lot a like, as there are few, if any "voices" in the dialogue. You could interchange just about anyone's dialogue, and nobody would notice. This comes from bad writing and actors who don't know how to make a part their own.
These guys needed a few more years on SNL first, and it's a shame that they may not get another chance in the future, since this movie will lose money (due to an over-sized budget). And the weird thing is that they could have made it for $2 million, and everyone would be saying something different then. it would be profitable, but also, they would have been forced to make choices, instead of just "doing whatever they wanted" which in this business, is a recipe for disaster...