Makes the Three Stooges look like Neil Simon

Rating: 1/10 (6 March 2009)

Maybe I'm just way too old for this movie, or maybe I've watched too many good comedies over the years, but I didn't find a single thing funny in this theoretical comedy (I say theoretical since it's labeled a comedy, but that might be a printer's error). Most of the "jokes" were either mildly funny seventy years ago or fell flat even then, and it looked as though whole scenes were missing throughout, it was that disjointed. Then again, I haven't thought Jack Black was funny since HIGH FIDELITY. Take a look at some of the old b/w Three Stooges shorts from back in the thirties and forties--they did a few wrestling parodies that worked good as shorts, but they had the sense never to try and extend those routines into a feature-length film. Come to think of it, wasn't Curly always the poor fat sap in the ring, pitted against a larger opponent who he ultimately defeats? Sounds awfully familiar...