I’m… wow. Just wow. I didn’t like anyone in this movie. Which is a shame, because I actually love everyone in this movie. Lemme ’splain:
Will Forte. Kristin Wiig. Powers Boothe. VAL-frikkin-KILMER. Every one of these people is someone who has done something that I thought was amazing. For this film, they were brought together, and Will Forte was let loose on screen. I’ve read in the interviews that the guys who made this film have done that they just kept pushing to see what they could get away with, to see when the people with money would tell them to stop. And they never did. Usually, I’d say that was a good thing, but there’s only so many times I can hear jokes about dude-on-dude fellatio before the joke just… stops being funny.
That’s all of this movie. They hit the same note again and again, and sometimes just hit it harder and harder when what I wanted was for them to tell a different joke, and I stopped enjoying it.
Less fun than it looks.
In retrospect, I would have preferred to see a different movie, one that I’d already seen and really enjoyed.
Maybe, in order to dig this, I should have been really drunk. That might make it awesome. I can actually see that: hanging out with the guys, three sheets to the wind, and popping in MacGruber for a good time to be had by all.
That’s about it, though.
On the plus side, like I said, it had a lot of people I liked in it, and there were some parts that I laughed out loud at. Also, the story proceeds well, I don’t think they left any gaping plot holes…
I’d recommend seeing something else. Maybe Turner & Hooch (always a good choice!), or something that you know you’ll enjoy, before picking this up, or dropping $8 on a movie ticket.
That said, it’s probably better than Marmaduke.
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