A genuinely bland movie

Rating: Null/10 (8 March 2003)

I was honestly very disappointed with this movie. I kept hearing from my fellow co-workers about how AWESOME this movie was and were amazed that I had never seen it. "You HAVE to see this movie," they chanted. So I did.
Other than seeing a lot of Bond movies with Roger Moore, and Jackie Chan of more recent times, most of the big name actors in this movie never really appealed to me that much. I never cared much for Smokey and the Bandit movies, for instance. Maybe I just didn't have the emotional attachment to the actor's reputations that apparently a lot of people have.
With all that in mind, I instead watched the movie hoping for a fantastic movie that stands on its own merit instead of riding the coattails of a bunch of (mostly) washed-up actors. Unfortunately, this "comedy" had no sense of comedic timing, the slapstick was poor, the gags were not funny, none of the jokes are original or particularly funny, and there was never any real likable characters (except maybe the cross-eyed "doctor") in my view.
Why anyone would think this was anything but an expose' of once popular Hollywood "talent" is beyond me. I was able to watch this movie all the way through, which is saying something. However I just kept waiting for the entertainment that never materialized before the end of the movie.
I give it half a star.