Fantastic use of many talents.

Rating: Null/10 (8 September 2007)

This movie was quite a breakthrough for Steve Carrell. He wrote and produced this movie, even the back and forth banter that makes the movie move along so well. The first time I watched it, it was just an average comedy. My girlfriend was watching it a couple days later and for some reason all those jokes I just giggled at before I was full on laughing at this time around. It grew on me. I don't know that it's true for everybody, but that's the way it worked for me. I instantly became a fan of Judd Apatow.
All the characters are perfect for their role. Paul Rudd is perfectly neurotic and Seth Rogen plays the perfect party guy who you grow to love more and more as the movie goes on. It's a comedy that DOES have a plot, albeit not much of one but it's enough of one to keep the movie glued together. The ending seems a bit abrupt and slightly disappointing, but the laughs and hairy(literally) situations that come non stop before it are well worth the watch.
Rent this one, unless vulgarity or nudity makes you uncomfortable. Not my favorite comedy of all time, but very close. One of those that's re-watchable again and again.
And one last side note, I always enjoyed Steve Carrell while he was on the Daily Show and Bruce Almighty, etc. But after seeing this and him on The Office, he has become one of my favorite Hollywood stars.