What happened?

Rating: 4/10 (16 February 2006)

This movie starts out reasonably promising, throwing out jokes at a rapid pace. But then suddenly 1/3 of the way through, it ceases to be funny. At all. And suddenly we're in the middle of a somewhat depressing drama that the writers and actors can't seem to dig themselves out of. Owen Wilson isn't amusing as a guy just barely hanging on to his sanity while feeling abandoned by his best friend, and that makes his character almost unbearable at moments. It's always a shame when writers think they need to inject something serious into what was meant to be shamelessly lightweight and this is a perfect example of how that can fail completely.