Swing and a miss

Rating: 2/10 (22 July 2008)

I tried really hard to like this movie, my friends told me how funny it was and that it was the best thing they've seen in a long time, but I just couldn't like it.
The story of two boys trying to get some action has been done so many times before that the entire plot of this movie annoyed me from the start, it seemed as though the writers sat down and took their favourite parts from Animal House, American Pie, Revenge of the Nerds and other high school / college movies and mixed it in with a ton of swearing.
The dialogue is unbelievable and over the top, normal boys that age don't talk about sex to that extent at all, the main actors had no emotional range whatsoever, they just had the same look of bewilderment on their faces broken up by occasional anger.
And the less said about the police officers the better.
To all the people who love this movie, watch it a few more times and let the jokes grow on you, you'll find they're not funny at all, but such is the comedy of this century, everything is for shock value now, as is evident in cartoons like Family Guy, there is no longevity in these movies.You can watch Animal House this afternoon and it will still be hilarious, but I guarantee nobody will be watching this movie in 25 years.