wow. sooooo bad.

Rating: 2/10 (20 June 2006)

This was truly the worst movie I've seen in recent memory. For the record, Jack black is great. I enjoyed every other movie I ever saw him in, and generally seem to think what he thinks if funny generally is funny. This was a massive exception.
The saddest thing about it was that Jack Black tried so hard! He really did! He put everything he could into this role! Sadly, it sucked. Among the things that sucked most about this movie: The pacing. It was odd, eratic, weird, and just generally bad. Made the movie far worse than it would have been.
The characters were horrendous. There were no characters. Just characatures. They reacted exactly as you would expect them to. And thats it.
I enjoy a decent summer blockbuster leave-your-brain-at-the-door flick. but this was taking that to the extreme. really, attempt to simulate the brain functions of an amoeba, and then you may think a few things are funny. maybe. although it was still be a bit low brow. For god's sake, just don't let the question "why" get anywhere near your head though.
Truly, we watched for about an hour, and could stand no more. We ended up crashing "The Breakup", which was actually pretty decent.
Honestly, i think this is the movie Jack Black is going to look back on and regret. Best to have it out of the way now though.