You call this funny?

Rating: 2/10 (19 August 2005)

A promising bowler leaves home to become a champion the town folk can be proud of. Idealistic and naive he falls prey to a rival bowler's plot to remove his competition and ends up losing a hand. Interesting plot so far. What is done with it is supposed to be a rip roaring slap-your-knee laugh fest. Well I've laughed more at online postings than I did well watching this. Maybe I just don't get the Farrelly brothers type of humor if that's what you call it. There's a bunch of sight gags that go nowhere and look really lame. There are jokes that you see coming a mile off and just repeat themselves. There are some usual disgusting scenes that make you cringe. What this movie doesn't seem to have is any originality. OK so there's an Amish bowler but he comes off as stupid just so we can laugh at the predictable stupid things he does. Like the other characters he's two-dimensional and not that likable. It's a shame that a otherwise talented cast is stuck with this turkey on their resumes.