Riddled with hype

Rating: 4/10 (22 June 2007)

Steve Carrell's charming and believable. The supporting cast is as mature as my college buddies and I were. The movie's pretty entertaining... for the first 20 minutes.
It would've been great if its running time had been cut down substantially, but it just drags on (and on and on), running on the same immature jokes, which get old extremely quick, albeit hilarious the first time. Many have warned those who are easily offended, but someone needs to also warn those who are easily bored by monotony. Case in point: when a shocking joke is told ten times, it ceases to be shocking.
Like "Knocked Up," Judd Apatow's films, for some reason, are filled with hype and redundancy. Carrell did a great job with what I describe as a circular script; Keener likewise was at her best, and it's her performance that makes me wonder whether it was the one factor that carried the script throughout this unnecessarily dragged-out movie.
I won't even get started on the ending because that alone merits a -1 star.