Jason Biggs, Jack Black and Steve Zahn play lifelong friends who perform in a Diamond cover band. More kidnappings and chaos occur, but by this time, you no longer care are you're certainly no longer laughing. The dog is actually an FBI drug-sniffing dog, being chased by two bumbling hit men. The film is thoroughly predictable and loaded with bathroom humor, but Arquette's sweet and subdued performance makes it harmless fun. Shunned by parents and unable to make ends meet, the cheerleader and her friends turn into bank robbers.
Satire starts to fire up, then sputters.
It's enough to make you want to cry. He and Charlize Theron look lovely together, though, in this implausible tale of a dying San Francisco hippie who turns a yuppie ad executive into a caring creature over a one-month affair. With material like this, it's hard for director Pat O'Connor not to meander toward the maudlin. But the dreamlike cinematography from Ed Lachman at least makes the film watchable. They spend the rest of the film trying to outwit and outrun each other.