Worst waste of talent I've seen in years

Rating: 1/10 (10 May 2007)

I'm not a prude nor a highbrow. I fall on the floor listening to Chris Rock and other witty but blue comics. But this was one of the lamest, unfunnily crude, bathroom humor movies I've seen in a long while. I sensed we were in trouble when Dustin Hoffman announced that they were having plumbing and water shortage problems. But surely there's a wittier way to make a little joke about that without saying "If it's yellow, let it mellow; if it's brown, flush it down." That's just crude; maybe OK to say within a family, but not funny on the big screen. The senior sexual therapy angle may have been cute, but they beat that to death. And are we really to believe that the girl's mother would get all breathy having her earlobes rubbed in public at a mall by a lady she thinks is weird? I kept waiting for something witty or amusing to happen, but I got tired of diNiro being such a hopeless tight-a__ nuisance and gave up about half way through. I wonder why he, Streisand, and Hoffman would have taken on such a lame and crude script. I loved Dodgeball and Something About Mary - so it's not the lowbrow humor that turns me off, it's when it's done so clumsily. Those other movies were pretty witty, brilliant by comparison.