Smoke 'em if you got 'em

Rating: 5/10 (14 September 2008)

I was excited. Having loved knocked up, and poured adoration over superbad. Just knowing Seth Rogan and Judd Apatow were involved in this movie had me anticipating comedy gold. And then the trailer. Put together well, showing little but enough laughs to have me believing this could be 'the' film of the year.
I've seen it now. And i'm keeping it together but i'm so god-dam disappointed.
Not a lot worked here. The story was vapour, the direction standard, but the script? These guys can write funny, we've seen it before, but this script has a handful of good laughs and in a feature length film, that just isn't enough. Sure there are chuckles along the way but so much of it falls flat that it stands out head and shoulders above the good stuff. No-one really has anything to do, even the two main characters don't really appeal, and there was never a point where i felt like i wanted these guys to succeed. And i was promised action, and instead got made-for-TV action highlighted with bad language, which is the other films is funny, but the profanities are used way way too much here, and it just feels awkward.
I may watch this film again, but not until i'm older and reliving past experiences. The experience of severe disappointment.