Big Swing and A BIG MISS!

Rating: 4/10 (31 May 2011)

ALL of the elements were there...but the whole movie came up short on being anywhere close to being the side-splitting comedy that the original was.
I sat there with my 19 year old son, waiting to laugh... wanting to laugh... It got almost uncomfortable waiting for the movie to hit us as funny. There are plenty of wild and outrageous situations, but real laughs are very few and far between. As we walked out of the theater, I said, "It all worked the first time...what happened the second time around?" The comic energy, that made the movie work the first time wasn't there. As my son said, the writers concentrated Too Hard on making it outrageous, and MISSED OUT ON MAKING IT FUNNY.
It is not the actors' fault, they delivered what was in the script. This might not even work on DVD. It will make a lot of money in the first couple of weeks, based upon the audience anticipating it will be great, but the word of mouth will keep it from being a Blockbuster.