I laughed all through the movie. Steve Carell’s bang-on portrayal of a
nerdy man-child, the strong supporting cast (especially Seth Rogen and
his often-ad-libbed performance as a grown-up version of his Freaks and Geeks
character), the endless tream of good jokes (even the ethnic humor got
done just right) and the best movie ending in a long time all made it
that rarest of things: a movie I’d gladly see again in the theatre
during its first run. It’s both a “boy’s night out” film with a heart
and a date movie
that won’t make you feel as if you’ve been chloroformed.
It really pushes the R-rating on the swearing, but it’s no worse than
the way a good number of otherwise upstanding individuals speak all the
fucking time.
If my endorsement is not sufficient, you could always listen to the
movie critics, who by and
large loved the film.
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Agreed.
I was won over the moment it opened with Joe Walsh’s Life of Illusion, right through to that ending. Comedy is usually about cruelty, and laughing at the pain of another (and this movie does allow for a bit of slapstick during the waxing scene) but it’s not about laughing at the main character’s sexual status, as the title might suggest. Especially as we get to know the screwed-up lives of his sexually active co-stars. Ultimately every character aspires to help the main character in their own way, and that’s a caring that is rare in American movies.
Would be nice to know the name of the filum.
The Dukes of Hazzard. Obviously.