an intellectual assault

Rating: 1/10 (21 September 2006)

I can not believe someone paid to make this movie. The script was lame, started with clichés, then somehow arrived at ridiculous and sociopathic. The characters were shallow and also insane, which may reveal something of the writers. I don't have to go far for examples, the homo-artist-molester (not a deep enough character to avoid seeing him as an archetype, as if writers had never met an artist or a homosexual, and therefore are afraid of them, attributing to this one character an also violent and creepy element), the girl Vince Vaughn's character ends up with does a good job playing crazy until randomly breaking character and admitting to not really being a virgin....it goes on and on. It was impressive how every 'funny' set-up was so badly timed and written and performed that it just came off as offensive and embarrassing. There was zero believability, none in the characters, none in the plot, none in the acting...it was as if saying this movie was a 'comedy' relieved the makers of the movie from actually being thoughtful about what they were doing.
This movie is offensive to women, men, 'Asians' (Vince's character's comment about his first), people who are intelligent, people of any color other than white, virgins, artists, homosexuals (artist character's portrayal, also grandmother's lesbian comment). environmentalists, and even wedding crashers.
Offensive not because of any flashes of nudity, or content, or language....offensive for the incoherence of the film as a whole, and the blatant disregard of comedic timing, character development, plot structure, and also the fact that also an audience will be involved at some point.
After, I had to take a long hot shower for the extent to which my mind had been violently assaulted by this impressively horribly bad 'film.' The filmmakers should issue refunds to the innocent victims.