what a waste of celluloid!

Rating: 1/10 (29 December 2007)

My apologies to Mr. Reilly, because he sings rather well in the soundtrack, but this ranks well up on my list of all-time stupidest films ever made in the history of cinematography. The R-rating is well-earned due to the juvenile attempts at comedy involving nudity. The attempts failed. The story-line was weak, but not dying until the authors and directors tried to fluff it out with the nudity which was pointless and the stupid jokes about doing drugs. In a day and age when drug abuse amongst American youth is at an all-time high, these attempts at humour were stupid and in extremely bad taste. True, Dewey Cox does fight his drug habit, but the attempts at humour involving the rehab process were also in extremely bad taste. Basically, this entire movie was in extremely bad taste. If you have to resort to 3rd-grader jokes about nudity and inane jokes about drug abuse and attempts at detox and rehab, then the project just needs to be scrapped. There just wasn't enough of a decent story line to make the project worth paying the $6.50 I paid to go see it. Message to other filmmakers - please don't write down to your audience all the time. There are those of us out there who do have brains and like to use them to enjoy intelligent humour.