Not that great.

Rating: 5/10 (17 June 2006)

Flipped a coin on this one. Honestly, I think staying would have been more fun. The theater was almost full and out of the many children there, there was maybe only 3 of them laughing during the entire film. Everyone else was just bored.
The movie tries to make you laugh by throwing all of the same old punches we've been seeing in comedies for years, (People so poor they eat dirt and what not). And when those routines fail, they throw cheap fart jokes out just to try and pull some small bit of laughter from the kids. Its quite sad that a movie written by such an acclaimed man falls so short that even his target audience, kids, don't even find it funny.
However, thats not to say that the whole movie is just a dull affair. I found one joke to be rather funny which concerned how a fat woman sneaks around her house as she chased after Jack Black's small partner. Too bad that was only 5 seconds out of the hour and forty minutes we spent in the theater.
Jack Black does a good job at playing his character, in fact, all the actors do a fine job. It's just that the writing falls short of providing any sort of humor. Even in movies like Toy Story or Robots there was at least some well thought out jokes that could still get a chuckle out of many people.
If you have kids who watch Nick, they may like this movie because of the silly fighting Jack takes part in, otherwise, there's little to laugh at in this movie, and what there is just isn't that funny.