What a mess this so called movie is.

Rating: 2/10 (18 November 2008)

If this was supposed to be a satire,it missed the mark, satires should be funny, this was sickening.
If this was supposed to be a comedy,I did not laugh once, I may have snickered once or twice.
If this was supposed to be parody of Hollywood film-making & its actors It was in sickening bad taste,nothing they spoofed came over decent.
Even the acting by a very well known cast seemed forced & definitely not one bit believable.
Ben Stiller also co-wrote & directed besides taking a lead role, He overacted & under-directed.
Jack Black who usually makes me laugh, made me cringe in a few of his scenes.
Robert Downey Jr, to his credit at least tried.
Mathew McConneauhy was good I did enjoy his role,He was not as insane as the others
Nick Nolte has a role here as well & he also tries.
Tom Cruise almost unrecognizable is the crazed studio studio exec. & seemed way out of it.
All the actors seemed to be out of it, I wonder what if anything they were using.
I did not recognize any other name actors, some were not too silly,.
Two more points of my displeasure are,
The film was much too darn long, I was fidgeting throughout. also it had a very long bad song score, that many useless songs were not necessary or needed.
It was filmed in Hawaii & as we all know it is a very beautiful state.
I cannot understand the high rating of 7.5 that it has here on IMDb.
Granted my rating is low BUT/
Ratings: * out of 4---32 points out of 100---IMDb 2 out of 10