Just really really bad

Rating: 1/10 (26 December 2006)

The funniest part of the movie was the opening quote from "Eleanor Roosevelt". That was literally the last time I laughed at anything in this movie. I found it so tedious and poorly put together, and I finally had to give up on it altogether with about 30 minutes left to go. But I have to admit that I was watching the extended "unrated" DVD version, so the thought occurred to me that since what I was watching was not the same version that was shown in the theaters, maybe I was not giving it a fair shot. After all, extended DVD versions always tend to show longer versions of scenes that were wisely trimmed down and put back in scenes that were taken out in order to tighten up the storyline. The person who brought over the DVD, and thought it was hilarious in the theater, had to admit that it didn't seem as funny this time. It has to be because of the DVD, but still I have a hard time imagining anyone in a movie theater laughing at anything in this movie. It was just monumentally unfunny. Every scene went on for far too long, and there were tons of scenes that didn't have any reason to be there other than to pad out the running time. There was about a half hour of plot, and yet they managed to stretch it out into a full two hours. If the theatrical version was shorter, that might have helped, but otherwise it was just painful to watch. The lesson: people who come out with "extended, unedited and unrated director's cuts" are doing us no favors.