New classic!

Rating: 8/10 (15 August 2007)

This movie is not perfect. I'll admit it. But back when I was a kid, I loved Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore and movies like that. This movie brings you back to that kind of feeling - the kind of completely absurd and strangely sincere wackiness that Adam Sandler used to do so well. Just like everyone used to criticize Chevy Chase and Bill Murray for going through the motions with each new film, now Sandler and some of his fellow SNL alums seem to be doing the same. It's up to the new gang, the kids who are hungrier to make it.
And make it they do. This movie has a few misses. A couple jokes fall so flat that you almost cringe. But when this movie is funny (and it is) it's really damn funny.
A lot of people will compare it to Napoleon Dynamite, and it is similar, but I felt like instead of being weird for weirdness' sake, this movie is more like a traditional "Tommy Boy" style comedy with that weirdness embedded in it.
Check out Kiv and Jorma and Andy's "Awesometown" pilot on Youtube and their other Lonely Island shorts. If you like those, this movie just might make you crap your pants. And if nothing else, they'll introduce you to Chester, who has a real star-making turn in this film.