Not worth a ticket

Rating: 4/10 (19 August 2006)

I am a fan of Will Ferrell... when he's funny. Lately, it seems that he makes movies that are silly but not funny. I appreciate good improv, but this and Anchorman strike me as so totally improvised that there ceases to be any semblance of a plot. I don't need much of a plot, but I need SOMETHING to get me into the movie. This didn't have it. This is not to say that there were not funny bits. But there were so many more bits where I just had to wonder, "What were they thinking?" And that's just it. They weren't. This movie plays like it was created by stoned 14 year olds. Which is I'm sure the target audience, so maybe that works. But it missed the mark for me, my girlfriend, and the rest of the audience at the theater. I didn't care for Anchorman that much, but it was funnier than this movie. Wait for it to come out on DVD, which I'm sure it will by October, knowing how the movie industry works these days.