Lazy, flat, a waste of film

Rating: 3/10 (27 December 2007)

Judd Apatow apparently believes he is God's gift to comedy. His producers and editors apparently believe he has a Midas touch and can do no wrong. Up until this movie, all of them may have been pretty dead on. With this movie, all bets are off.
Perhaps if the movie had been cut down to about 15 minutes and put up on YouTube it might have garnered some hits and some pass-it-around-the-office laughs. At full length and in the theater, it is a train wreck. Joke after joke after joke falls flat. Actor after actor mugs and hams and tries to blow some air into this deflating blimp of a film, but it was never properly stitched together to begin with and their efforts come off as sad at best and indulgent at worst.
I kept waiting for the movie to get funny. On paper, it probably read funny. But as I sat in the theater, beginning to dread each new scene, I realized it was a failure on the part of the director, writers, editors and execs to see that it wasn't working. Let's put it this way: even the lame Scary Movie spoofs are better than this. This movie just flat out sucked.