Comedy for 15 year old boys

Rating: 3/10 (16 June 2007)

This could have been a nice, average movie, but it couldn't decide who its audience was. The trailers suggest that it's a spin on a nice little romantic comedy, probably a chick flick. But beware! It turns out that the movie is really about immature geeks.
The two women in this film did a nice job. Paul Rudd was fine, and the lead male was fine... You'd think that would be enough to keep the movie from being a total bust. BUT, the movie was way over the top in the amount of time that was dedicated to the juvenile behavior of the young single 'men' who were the sidekicks. I'm fine with profanity and sexual innuendo in film, but this just went on and on and on and on... These sidekicks are supposed to be in their early 20's but they are like a troupe of 15 year old boys who revel in fart jokes, pubic hair, put downs, drugs, and the dream of getting laid. It was a BAD version of American Pie. The sidekicks had nothing interesting or endearing to offer. They curse incessantly without consideration of who else is in their presence, as if they just learned these words and feel the need to practice, or out do one another.
Sure, men need space, and they need to be guys... but this movie portrays single men as absolute dimwits. While the lead male evolves along the way, none of the band of buddies do. At one point in the film I couldn't decide whether it was anger or pain that was causing me to shift constantly in my seat as I watched. The film should be reedited. Cut out about 5 minutes of the sister, cut out 5 minutes of her husband, cut out 20 minutes of the 'boys' -- and give us about 10 minutes back of Katherine M. Heigl -- who is reason we came to see the film in the first place. She is the only believable character in the film--the only one who doesn't overplay her role--and she still manages to let the comedy through.
Watch this one on DVD.