Clearly a reflection of the times, as SAT scores drop further

Rating: 1/10 (28 October 1998)

Our "culture" is at present at the nadir of this millennium in terms of art, music, quest for knowledge, philosphy and most other like measures. To us, we're vapidly thrilled when Erkyl prances about, when some poor sap takes a baseball to the groin and it's caught on video and when the atonal dissonance of Nirvana blasts at us on MTV. Having said this, it is perfectly understandable why the Gen-X dominated masses rated this putrid, purile movie as highly as they did.
This movie was so bad that "reprehensible" does not go far enough as an apt description. I've only seen one other movie in which I felt similarly moved to just walk out of the theater in silent protest to the terrible moviemaking I was so unfortunate to have witnessed. Don't believe the slack-jawed uninformed when deciding whether or not to see this film -- avoid it, take a wide berth around it and go see ANYTHING else.
Now, the typical response to those of us who found this movie to be incredibly bad in all respects is that we are "bible thumpers" or can't respect the anti-political correctness the movie adheres to. Sure we can. It's just a fascinatingly bad moive. The specific vulgarities were nauseating, yes (the sperm in the hair perhaps being the topper), but the real objection is in that EVERYONE in the entire movie is a complete and utter reprobate, from Ben Stiller's imbecilic character to Cameron Diaz's sexy but senseless (she's a doctor? Give me a break) character. And those were the two most intelligent characters in the entire movie. The remaining coterie of scumbags aren't worth mentioning. And the final scene, where she throws over $10 million/year Brett Favre for our "hero"? Laughably pathetic.
Go watch "The Barney Movie" -- compared to this drivel, that was a cinamatic masterpiece.