pretty funny, but the last half hour ruins it

Rating: 5/10 (17 July 2005)

I really enjoyed the first hour plus of this movie, sure it wasn't very realistic, but it was quite funny. Wilson plays it more non-chalantly than Vaughn and the two are great together. The sex scenes weren't over-the-top and there was actually a decent plot (at least compared to what one would expect with the actors and subject matter). But the movie "jumps the shark" (I hate that phrase, I have no idea why I used it) in the last 25 minutes. Sure the "surprise" cast member scene is funny, but what follows is just strange. Then, the scene at the final wedding was odd and uncomfortable, definitely not at all realistic, it made me cringe. When a movie makes me cringe at the end it ruins the great vibe it had going for nearly and hour and a half and really leaves me disappointed, more so than a movie that never peaks to begin with. P.S. The movie was overly homophobic (not that any amount of homophobia is good)--to the point that I was embarrassed that the people around me were laughing so hard (this is 2005 for God's sake, not 1989)--for clarification purposes I'm not trying to push a "gay agenda" and am in fact an enlightened religious "straight" woman (only saying this because I think that some people think only gays and lesbians care about these things--NOT true).