Unremittingly silly.

Rating: 2/10 (14 February 2010)

Let's face it. Rob Reiner is not Mel Brooks. (Perhaps both of them are glad of that...) I watched this film on the recommendation of several people whose intelligence I had hitherto respected, but was, alas, disappointed. My first reaction to the whole thing as "this film is unremittingly silly!" Andre the Giant is no Alex Karras/Mongo. "Max the Miracle Man" who brings people back from the dead? A woman who thinks she's been married without having agreed to it by saying "I do"? A hero who has to be dragged to climactic action because he's "mostly dead"? This film gives new definition to the term "willing suspension of disbelief." My biggest worry now is that friends who have become fans of this thing will trot it out and force me to watch it again. I will not be saying "As you wish."