The beginning is funny, but it morphs into a lame, gross-out action movie

Rating: 6/10 (8 August 2008)

This movie was a disappointment. I am a fan of most Apatow movies, and a huge fan of Superbad, which was written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. So I naturally had high expectations.
At first I found the movie very funny. Similar humor to other Apatow comedies, but a little more drug-related than usual. Then, out of nowhere, the movie becomes a full-on action movie, without humor.
Like many of the the Apatow pictures, the movie is too long. The action seems to go on and on, but all humor is lost. The only laughter in the theater is the nervous kind, because people are shrieking and "ew"ing at the grotesque action.
If you like marijuana and really love gross-out action movies, this is probably the movie for you. But if you're a just a fan of Rogen and Goldberg's other work, you might be a little confused as to why they changed their genre.