Aptly Named

Rating: 3/10 (11 January 2008)

I don't know if a truly hilarious movie's been made in ten years that wasn't animated. Apatow is partly to blame for this. His movies are all a bunch of mindless, overly-explained insults and mostly lousy gags that amount to a frat-boy's inside joke. This flick is essentially Sixteen Candles minus the subtlety, characters plus a few thousand curse words. Apatow's crap is a continuation of the dumbing down of American humor which began with Adam Sandler and the Farrelly bros. and it must be stopped. I mean, even Animal House, Caddyshack et al had some kind of grasp on reality, which is why their humor worked. You had to use your mind to "get it". Apatow and Superbad simply ask you to be retarded for a couple of hours...