This Is Just Plain Bad

Rating: 2/10 (6 October 2013)

I Like Seth Rogen. I like half of the rest of the cast enough to give this a shot. I really wanted to like this movie. But lets be honest... If you are over 14 years old (and the movie is rated R), the penis, sex, excreting, and drug-taking jokes just wear thin.
I actually like raunchy, 'toilet' humor when it accents and peppers a movie and it's relatively unexpected. But when the entire movie is based on it, it makes the whole movie tiring after about a half hour. That's the ENTIRE movie. One big, long, boring pot-smoking penis joke.
I did laugh, even out loud, a few times. That's how they got one of the 2 stars out of me. One star's worth of laughs does not make a good movie. The other star was for the creative way they let the audience play a 'guess the Hollywood Star' game through most of the movie with cameo appearances. That was somewhat entertaining. But there was literally NO PLOT. It was obvious the entire cast was making stuff up as they went along and nothing got edited. Several of the bad bantering seemed endless.
This entire movie could have been done in a one-hour HBO special. It's two-hour length was over an hour too long to run the same joke. But, then Hollywood would not have made the $100 million they did off of this mess. People keep showing up, so they'll keep shoveling it out. It was painful to sit through. I figured with the people who are in it and the good reviews it got, that it had to get better. So I sat until the end and I shouldn't have. It had two good laughs at the end with some cameo appearances that made me laugh. But the agony I had to go through to get there was not worth the time nor brain cells it cost me. I think I literally got stupider.