not bad but not funny

Rating: 7/10 (30 May 2011)

Against my better judgment I decided to see this film because of the success of its sequel and the high ratings here. Surely if a sequel was made for a film, then the original film must've been good enough to warrant that, right? Well... no, it wasn't. I should've remembered the Resident Evil and Scream series. (They just keep pumping these out, don't they?)
Anyway, I can't say I was disappointed. I pretty much got what I expected: a bunch of guys getting together to do something wildly stupid so that we could laugh at them. OK, I was hoping for more because of the success of the sequel but, unfortunately, that was it. It was about as funny as watching some guys trying to tip a cow. In the words of Seth from Superbad, "That's not even clever!"
This film could've been funny and the jokes sound funny on paper, but on film, they weren't. I mean, an image of some guys waking up from their stupor to find themselves in the middle of a disheveled room with a chicken and a tiger and no clue as to what they've done does sound funny. So why wasn't it? Probably because there was no chemistry among the main characters. It was just a group of individuals experiencing unusual circumstances. I felt nothing for them.
The only time I actually laughed was during that scene where the bearded guy was playing with the baby. That was roughly 20 minutes into the movie and that was pretty much the only, really funny, though somewhat vulgar and tasteless, scene. The rest of the time I was only interested in finding out how the movie would end.
I didn't find much humor in this film but it did keep me interested enough to finish watching it which is why I'm giving it a 7.