'We're getting a nice preview of what marriage is gonna be like with Ike Turner over here.'

Rating: 7/10 (13 August 2005)

was having a really crap birthday and i thought id end it on a crap note by seeing this film. I read poor reviews about the first third being good and the rest being cheesy etc-etc. so my hopes weren't high.
However,although i hope they don't milk this idea and make a franchise out of it, like the typical clichéd Hollywood bean-counting machine that it is , i might rent this when its on DVD. its that good.
Vince with his p*ssed off frustration, and Owen' calm gentle intelligent reasoning make a great team. even Walken paled in comparison to these two. hey it was for the paycheck, but he's one of the few Hollywood icons i can say has actually earnt it. but these two...they just totally stole the show and if they ad-libbed stuff it worked really well.
the girl - the one that Wilson's after, smiles like a toothpaste ad and has as much range as my left buttock....but as shes another IMDb 'up and coming' wannabe ill let her off. but commercial love-interest blandness aside, the sheer comic energy of these two is enough to overpower any cliché and cheesy line that inevitably happens with this comedy romance.
also having just turned 31 i can relate to these two guys getting older and not wanting to settle down, and it just seemed so real. and seeing Wilson as a loser? he's actually likable now and believe it I don't think he is the smarmy blonde-dude I used to think he used to come across as.
the comedy was generally quite well acted, apart from the toilet joke, and other farcical stuff- seems like a senile granny cracking one-liners will crease an audience no matter what decade we are in, the ad-libbed lines were pretty good and the only complaint i may have is that the film is a *little* long-winded. but all in all, 7 out of 10. nice and effortless. great comedy duos - get them while we still have something to laugh about in this increasingly unfunny world. But the Will Ferrell cameo? Buddy, you must actually worship the sh*t you sh*t, cos sometimes your weirdness is just not funny.