Who else thought Jud Apatow did this?

Rating: 4/10 (26 March 2009)

Really blatant attempt to ride his coat tails here I think. He's been hammering out hit after hit, and this movie sneaks in there, with two stars from some of his previous work (Using the same cast is an Apatow trademark), and tries to steal some of his box office power.
I was expecting something with A Lot of laughs. It has Laughs, not a lot though. Not to say it doesn't have jokes throughout. They're just not that funny. Not a single big laugh out loud moment either. The humor is mostly built on a foundation of awkward moments, admittedly my least favorite of styles of humor.
They waste some comedic gold in this movie. J.K. Simmons, Jane Curtin, Andy Samburg, I feel like they just didn't need such big names for small low-impact parts. Jon Favreau holds up well though.
Jason Segel is good in it, but doesn't have the great material he got to write for himself in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
Paul Rudd I expected better from, but again I would say its more the scripts fault. I kept thinking he was great in .... well those Apatow movies, but he was always a great Co-Star! I wondered why didn't he get a starring role in one of his films. I thought this was the one until I sat through the credits thinking,"This was not the movie I thought I'd be seeing. Who actually made this!?" One more parallel can be made. Its really close to the same sequence of events to The 40 Year-Old Virgin. Just instead of sex, substitute friendship. If you've seen both movies, think about it.
Overall, its lighthearted. It has its share of chuckles. But I feel like I got suckered with this movie.