Brilliant vehicle movie; lousy movie

Rating: Null/10 (16 January 2009)

This movie is loaded with fantastic gags and scenes, but just isn't that good a movie; I didn't bother watching it to the end.
And this is in spite of the fact that I loved a lot of the scenes and sequences; the "everybody knows you never go full-retard" bit is an absolute classic! But the movie still sucks.
I'm very picky this way; if I'm going to sit for 1.5 hours and watch something, it has to do better than to amble from one comic bit to another. Without an overarching narrative/moral grain it eventually starts to feel like slow torture.
If you enjoy watching great comic actors do their professional thing, then you'll like this. If you expect more than that, skip it.