Morally Bankrupt

Rating: 5/10 (28 August 2013)

A comedy about a drug dealer/smuggler, who uses vulnerable children, yet lives happily ever after, needs to be very dark or very funny to work. Sadly,as with most American comedies, this film starts funny but then descends into a Disney family romp. The characters are shallow and underdeveloped and the stereo typing of the Mexicans borders on racist. Sure, our 'hero' is a drug dealer, but he only sells to the happy, white and middle classes, so that's not so bad. He agrees with little objections to smuggle drugs across the border and to do this enlists the help of a stripper, a street thief and a lonely, abandoned boy ( who he later tries to pimp out !). Jason Sudikis isn't a good enough actor to make you like or care for such a character. Got the feeling that the whole film was just an excuse to get Jennifer Anniston to do a striptease and even that wasn't as sexy as i'd always imagined it would be !.