reasonably funny and watchable, buy why not wait for the DVD?

Rating: 6/10 (6 August 2008)

This is not the sort of movie that I go to see very often, or even rent on DVD for that matter. My expectation was that the humor would be mostly slob, raunchy humor, but still funny enough that I would not find myself wanting to walk out of the theater. It met those expectations adequately. There was a point around the middle of the movie when I was thinking that I would enjoy a walk around the outside of the theater more, but I hung in there to the end.
No matter how well scripted and produced, there is no way that any movie of this genre could ever deserve more than a 5/10 rating. If movies such as "Braveheart", "Saving Private Ryan", "Master and Commander", "The Mission", "Ben-Hur" and "Apollo 13" can only have a 10/10 rating at best, then by what right can any movie of this genre deserve even a 5/10 rating? The mere fact that the people who like this movie think that it deserves a 10/10 rating, tells you everything that you need to know about them, and this in turn tells you everything that you need to know about this movie. As far as movies of this genre go, it was a decent movie. But it ain't no "Animal House", nor even a "Caddy Shack", and it sure as hell doesn't deserve a rating any higher than 5/10. I gave it a slightly higher rating, 6/10, because I thought it deserved a little extra for not showing us Jason Segel's penis.