A Tasteless Disappointment

Rating: 3/10 (7 December 2005)

I am astounded at how many great reviews this movie has received. I thought the movie to be horridly tasteless in it's constant use of the foulest language possible. Carrel's scene where he's being waxed appeared to be the funniest scene as shown on commercials, but when the time came, it turned out to be nothing more than a 5 minute explicative-fest that would make Chris Rock blush. Why is it that the male college-aged crowd finds the overuse of the worst possible names for female and male genitalia as cursing names so funny? What happened to the witty and sometimes slapstick comedy of movies like Anchorman, Dumb and Dumber, and even Dodgeball? Now, please realize, I myself am a college-aged student who gets a kick out of the occasional crude humor, drug jokes, or things of that nature. Heck, I even enjoyed quite a bit of "Harold & Kumor Go to White Castle". Now given that there was a good deal of crudeness in that, it didn't rely on it to be it's focal point of gaining laughs all the time. To tell you the truth, if I hear about another rated R comedy coming out by the director of The 40-Year Old Virgin, I'll probably hold off on seeing it at least till it comes out on video, if at all.
This movie had a decent plot to hold it together, and Carrel's spaced-out personality kinda makes you chuckle in itself, but I was hoping to see a movie that held itself together through actual FUNNY lines and clever writing, rather than tasteless humor that it would seem you would need at least 4 beers before you would find it remotely funny. I thought Wedding Crashers was a great movie and was a little worried that this movie would step over some of the lines that Wedding Crashers tilted on all throughout it.......and it did. Even my roommate, who enjoys quite a few raunchy movies, thought this one was too much.
I'll spare this movie three stars for the decent plot line and handful of laughs I got out of it, but if you have any morals WHAT-SO-EVER, save your money and rent it.