Profoundly and superficially unfunny collection of YouTube ideas starring a totally charmless Andy Samberg

Rating: 1/10 (27 November 2007)

Arguably the saving grace of this misguided imitation of Napoleon Dynamite (itself an empty, contrived series of try-hard sketches) is the presence of the delightful Isla Fisher. Andy Samberg is sadly lacking in any of the attributes needed by a comedian, and top of that list is charm. There are a couple of funny ideas that are not badly directed, and made me laugh, but why make a movie apparently based on YouTube sketches that once again glorifies the tragedy of the American suburbs and their neanderthal inhabitants? Once again we are in a kind of never-never land somewhere between the 1970s and the 1990s where life as it is only portrayed in the movies is parodied by another movie. There is so much out there in real life that's a lot funnier than anything in this imitation of an imitation of an imitation.