Wieners

Plot synopsis:
Fran Kranz stars as Joel, a guy who has recently been dumped by his girlfriend (on the advice of an abusive television therapist Dr. Dwayne, played by Darrell Hammond), sending him into a spiral of depression. His two friends, Wyatt (Kenan Thompson) and Ben (Zachary Levi), a closeted gay man, take him on a road trip to lift his spirits and take revenge on Dr. Dwayne. The friends take their trip in Wyatt's van, which he has customized into a cross-country hotdog stand called the weinerwagon in an attempt to impress Oscar Mayer and get a job with them.
On the way, they encounter an elderly nymphomaniac couple who had sexual intercourse in front of them. After being dropped off, they realized their wallets are stolen by three women, leaving them with only ten dollars delivered to Wyatt in a 15-year-old birthday card from his grandmother. They use this money to enter into a hot bod contest, on which Ben had a flashback of his mother constantly yelling at him to work hard in the competition. After getting advice from a man Walrus Boy, he wins, getting $10,000 for the prize.
As they approach their destination, Joel abandons his friends in a fit of hopelessness, winding up drunk in a back alley. His childhood tormenter, Drake Hanswald (Andy Milonakis), appears in a hallucination, and Joel watches helplessly as his younger self is tormented by Drake and all of his other classmates. Realizing that he needs to change his situation and stand up for himself, Joel returns to his friends just in time to save them from the hippies who had previously stolen Wyatt's hood ornament.
The next morning, they go to the studio where Dr. Dwayne's show is filmed and sneak in. After beating up Dr. Dwayne's decoy, the real Dr. Dwayne appears, revealing that he intentionally caused Joel's breakup to motivate Joel to take a stand for himself. He also reveals that he has found a rich man that Wyatt had saved from a life of drugs, who is willing to finance Wyatt's Wieners. Ben makes a speech to the audience and accepts his homosexuality.
Now that the friends have all achieved what they needed, they head home, and we learn that Wyatt's Wieners became the 4th most successful pre-packaged meat company in the U.S. and that he lives in a hotdog-shaped house with his dachshund named Beyoncé. Ben went on to become a successful lawyer and cologne designer, and that he currently lives with his "roommate" Johnathan and his two cats. Joel invented "unpantsable" pants, and the three friends take the Wienerwagon on a road trip every year to spread cross-country happiness.

Tags: revenge, humor, adult comedy, flashback

Review:
Worthless.
Wyatt (Kenan Thompson) wants so badly to become a hot-dog-selling employee, gets the bright idea to take his two best friends, Ben (Zachary Levi of "Chuck" fame) and Joel (Fran Kranz, "Dollhouse") cross-country in a self-made hot-dog company promoting car to give away free wieners in order to promote the company that won't hire him.
There's also the added benefit of kicking the crap out of a Dr. Phil-like talk show host (Darrell Hammond) who caused Joel to get dumped by his girlfriend when they reach their final destination.
Along the way they meet multiple eccentric characters sadly, all of which are much more annoying than funny.This is pretty much a low-rent "Road Trip" clone minus the laughs.
It's one of those films where the 'jokes' arn't just devoid of laughs, but their 'punch-lines' can be seen coming from a mile away.
To top it off none of the characters are particularly likable enough to care about their so-called 'madcap' adventures.
The minutes seemed to stretch for hours, especially during the time that Jenny McCarthy's on the screen (it's just a glorified cameo, yet it felt endless)Eye Candy: An extra briefly shows her tits at a strip-club & two others randomly walk by later in the filmMy Grade: D-.
Slightly better than expected.
'Wieners' is a budget installment in the genre of teen sex comedies such as 'American Pie' and 'Porky's'.The humor is hit and miss.
Some of the gags did in fact tickle my funny bone, but many just fell flat.
As the title name would imply, the majority of the humor is centered around sexual innuendo and themes.
'Wieners' was surprisingly less raunchy than I would have assumed, and that actually works in it's favor.
The plot is more or less a disposable vehicle for the comedy, centering around a group of friends heading cross-country in a hot dog van to seek revenge on a daytime talk show host.The hijinx and situational comedy encountered on the road trip are, of course, the highlights of this movie.If an median movie is a 5, this is a slightly subpar bit of cinema, yet not a completely wasted effort or a true stinkbomb.4/10 -.
There were no toppings?....
One question; what happened to the laughs?
"Wieners", as a comedy, failed to deliver.
From the looks of the cover, it looks like a fairly straight up comedy that resembles something of a mix between a Nation Lampoons and typical teenage comedy.
And I do believe that the movie appeals to a younger audience, but still, what happened to the laughs?For a movie with a name like "Wieners", you would assume there would be more sausages and jokes related to guy's private parts in it, but oddly enough there was almost none of either.
The movie had potential to put up a lot of such moments, but just didn't do it.This is basically just a dull version of a road-trip movie that didn't make it all the way to the goal.The cast in "Wieners" were fairly good.
The movie was carried by Kenan Thompson (playing Wyatt), and he was also the one that sported the most laughs, for some reason.
He got help from Zachary Levi (playing Ben) and Fran Kranz (playing Joel).
On the list are more interesting names such as Darrell Hammond (playing Dr. Dwayne), Mindy Sterling (playing Mrs. Applebaum) and a super great performance by Blake Clark (playing Mr. Applebaum).I had expected to be laughing more throughout the movie, so I was disappointed when the movie ended, and I was left with a hot dog that sadly enough was missing mustard, ketchup and the works..
Tough To Swallow!.
Where's the mustard where's the relish where's the wieners!!!
This "movie" is a really lame attempt at a buddy/road trip movie in the vein of National Lampoon comedies.
There are a few laughs, all of which come courtesy of Kenan Thompson, but it's easy to be funny when you are firing off jokes every three seconds literally!!!
I like Kenan's work on SNL, but unfortunately his character is not interesting enough to fix this broken Wiener.
His character is very annoying and he shoots almost every line in the movie like he's trying to reach the back row of a live audience.
Some of his jokes do hit the mark, but suffice it to say a little Kenan goes a long way!
The rest of the film is just okay, but there are a few gross-out scenes that drag down my rating i.e. who needs to see someone pick their butts, belly buttons, etc and the "spit" scene - YUCK!I'm sure there's an audience for this sophomoric attempt at comedy, but I think even the most juvenile of audiences won't find much to laugh at with this wienie attempt of a movie..
How did Wieners go so wrong so fast?.
The movie starts well enough: A guy, arguing with his girlfriend, ends up on the show of a thinly veiled Dr. Phil to help work through the relationship.
However, this episode has a twist.
Some time later, our hero spends his days sitting in his underwear watching and re-watching that same episode.
To snap him out of his funk his friend, who just bought a weinermobile, proposes a road trip---to travel across the country and kick the good doctor's ass!
The film, however, is unable to keep the momentum going behind this interesting concept and things quickly devolve into crappy physical humor, some running gay jokes, a lewd reference here and there, and some awkward situations that bore more than they amuse.
All of which serves as nothing more than an attempt to bulk out the film because clearly the writers ran out of good ideas.
The ending is also a somewhat disappointing muddled mess that leaves viewers with the distinct impression that they just lost 90 minutes of their life that they're never going to get back.Former child star & current SNL cast member Kenan Thompson plays the happy-go-lucky hot doggatier Wyatt and greatly outshines the rest of the cast.
Despite his best efforts, however, even he can't pull laughs out of this mess.
The only two other faces you might recognize in the film are Jenny McCarthy (of Mtv fame) and Darrell Hammond (who plays the thinly veiled Dr. Phil parody).
All three perform admirably in their roles.
However, the leading man, Zach Levi (aka Chuck on the NBC comedy of the same name) could have easily been replaced with a sack of potatoes in the majority of scenes and nobody would ever have noticed.If you're going to see Wieners, if you watch the first 10 or 15 minutes then fast forward to the last 10 (or, because you're going to probably see this on TV, watch something else for a while) you might enjoy the film..
Despite title, those seeking penis jokes should look elsewhere.
The other reviewers weer clearly in it for the penis jokes, and I guess they must be brainwashed into political correctness to the point that they completely missed the gay sex jokes and several instances of penis jokes, sure it's not a very memorable movie but it was a solid one in its own right, without spoiling anything, there is a scene where the main characters are riding bumper cars at a theme park and a little girl bumps one of them into the side rail, so they all drive towards and bump her at the same time, (keep in mind that bumper cars do not move very fast and its actually difficult to get a good hit on someone) she inexplicably launches into the ceiling and not another word is mentioned of the incident.
if that's not hilarious then this movie is not for you.
if you just want a series of penis jokes maybe you should check out some other film..
Chill out, people....take it for what it is...
a stupid and funny comedy.
I've been hearing a lot of bad things about the comedy, Wieners.
I happened to run into it on television, and all I have to say is that it is a very, very funny movie.
Kenan Thompson is very funny as Wyatt, who along with his two friends, Ben (the fantastic Zachary Levi), and Joel (Fran Kranz) go on a road trip to take revenge on a TV show host named Dr. Dwayne (Darrell Hammond) who insulted them.
This turns into your typical, stupid road trip film.
The only difference is that this is literally breathtakingly funny.
It was not smart, but I found myself laughing continuously.
One of the funnier, yet more disgusting moments involves Jenny McCarthy as their formerly hot teacher, Ms. Isaac who has now become an unattractive redneck.
This movie may understandingly not speak to some, but for fans of comedies like Road Trip, American Pie, and Old School, this will be undeniably fun.
Even for some non-fans of those types of films, this movie should definitely without a doubt be extremely funny.
Thompson, Levi, Kranz, and Hammond have all been excellent before, and are good as ever here.
Definitely one worth checking out.