So bad I had to switch it off!

Rating: 2/10 (7 June 2010)

I am genuinely shocked at the number of good to excellent reviews this film has received.
What hurts me more than the formulaic and juvenile humour, the market- researched casting and the slow pacing is that Simon Pegg, co-creator of the legendary "Spaced" and "Shaun of the Dead" was involved in it. Is this really what he wants to do? I wonder whether the Brit-slacker- humour was all a facade for his desperation to become a Hollywood film star...
Take one pasty faced Brit. Add an unfeasibly beautiful baby-mother that he dumped at the altar (!), add a token American love rival, insert cameos from funny-blokes-off-the-telly-doing-something-like-that-thing- they-do-on-the-telly, clichéd Brit-cussing, a Friend-ly anglophile director, and what do you get? A bit of leaden humour, a bit of heartwarming nonsense, and another pitiful effort by the British lottery funding industry - sorry, film industry - to create an international hit.
Run, everybody, run.
That being said, I had to turn the film off halfway through, it was that shameful. Perhaps the finale is a laugh-a-minute? Somehow I doubt it.