Great Potential Ruined by Filth

Rating: 1/10 (1 August 2009)

This movie had enormous potential, both material and acting ability. Paul Rudd is a complex and talented actor. This movie has some very funny moments. However, (and, I should have suspected this to be the case in ANY R-rated COMEDY) these funny moments, and the movies vast bulk of POTENTIAL, were steeped and mired in an all-pervasive vulgarity, licentious behavior and rude, crude and obnoxious "jokes." For those who care about such things, God's name is also abused too many times to count.
These things are INEXCUSEABLE in a COMEDY that would have been funnier WITHOUT all this impure trash, tripe and sacrilegious additions which have been "hung on" to this movie and seem to be without any merit other than to "smut up" the movie. Apparently Hollywood thinks this type of tripe necessary. Hollywood doesn't learn very quickly.
One would THINK the dollar signs from "The Passion of the Christ" would be enough to get their attention, and signal that quite a majority of folks prefer more wholesome entertainment. One may think that, but one would be wrong. Hollywood doesn't seem to be ABLE to learn that lesson, no matter how much money movies like that make.
If they remade this movie and even toned it down to normal everyday* behavior and language, this COULD BE quite a good movie. Until then, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
*(I know they cry realism to defend this type of execrable refuse, but I do not know anyone who acts and talks in this way, and certainly not to this degree--and as a physician, I am acquainted with quite a range of human behaviors!)