Decent but not great

Rating: 6/10 (16 February 2008)

Definitely not as funny as hyped. There were a handful of hilarious scenes, but overall pretty much the same adolescent humor one finds in all of Apatow's movies (and I am a fan of his movies). Not much new ground here.
McLovin was great and some of the other characters were really funny, but many of the scenes, especially the ones with the cops, were just boring filler. Also the writers seemed to be trying for a world record in profanity with every other word being the f-word or something similar. When writers use profanity in every line it shows they're just being lazy. Especially in this context, it works in a gangster movie, but not in a dumb teen comedy.
Lastly Apatow could use a better editor. All of his movies drag on for too long. This one was no exception. Overall a decent flick, but not great.