Suffers from the modern-comedy virus called "overthetoppia buffooneris".

Rating: Null/10 (14 December 2014)

Yet another comedy that starts well but then cracks at the half-way mark, until it completely disintegrates and degenerates into unfunny slapstick nonsense in its last half-hour, including a typical cop-out action finale that makes Bugs Bunny cartoons look like Discovery documentaries. (OK, perhaps a bad example; Discovery Channel ain't what it used to be.) The immunity to bullets which everyone in the movie has (except the bad guys) is also fairly stupid.
Even less funny than the dumb shoot-out was that whole BFF shtick. It was embarrassing to listen to, cringe-worthy even. Very poor writing indeed. Even if you're only 15 you might find it hard to watch.
PE starts off as a funny buddy movie, but degenerates into a Vince Vaughn / Ben Stiller-type farce, perhaps even as bad as an Adam Sandler "comedy". Another way of explaining this movie's genre confusion: it starts off as "Midnight Run" (not plot-wise) but ends as "Naked Gun 4". This new generation of comedians doesn't even understand the basic rules of film-making, not even Seth who shows a lot of promise (or did show a lot of promise before starting to team up with the likes of Streisand and Diaz, hence joined the trashy commercial mainstream). You choose a comedy form and then you stick with it. What you don't do is start off with a reality-based buddy comedy but then suddenly, without rhyme, reason, cause or explanation (laziness perhaps?) switch to absurdist farce.
Besides, there is still a LOT these new kids can learn from the ZAZ team, when it comes to absurdist comedy. One of these things would be that LESS IS MORE, i.e. that you don't milk a gag dry until there's nothing left, especially when it's a dry gag to begin with hence no amount of squeezing helps.