This could be a funnier movie if it had been written by intelligent people and acted by performers who knew anything about subtlety. But this movie just throws its testicles in your face early and leaves them there to hang.
Will Farrell and John C. Reilly play two 40-something idiots who never grew up (or moved out) from the homes of their equally stupid, if somewhat more eloquent, parents. The two "boys" act like children, if children were sex-obsessed narcissists who played with Star Wars toys. Think Tom Hanks in "Big," but armed and high on meth.
The movie is supposed to be a parody of the infantilization of American society and the dysfunction of the postmodern family, but that gets lost in all the dog feces and dirty magazines that this movie vomits up.
Granted, there are moments that are just so viscerally ridiculous that something in you HAS to laugh, but every time you do, you feel like the morons in the audience who are just laughing because they think a close up shot of a grown man's testicles is funny.
Do I recommend? Yes, if you are very bored, very dumb or very stoned. Otherwise, save your time and money.
Grade: D.
Things to watch for: Mary Steenbergen once again chewing the scenery, "Nice Nice baby," men's urinal put to novel use.
Will Farrell and John C. Reilly play two 40-something idiots who never grew up (or moved out) from the homes of their equally stupid, if somewhat more eloquent, parents. The two "boys" act like children, if children were sex-obsessed narcissists who played with Star Wars toys. Think Tom Hanks in "Big," but armed and high on meth.
The movie is supposed to be a parody of the infantilization of American society and the dysfunction of the postmodern family, but that gets lost in all the dog feces and dirty magazines that this movie vomits up.
Granted, there are moments that are just so viscerally ridiculous that something in you HAS to laugh, but every time you do, you feel like the morons in the audience who are just laughing because they think a close up shot of a grown man's testicles is funny.
Do I recommend? Yes, if you are very bored, very dumb or very stoned. Otherwise, save your time and money.
Grade: D.
Things to watch for: Mary Steenbergen once again chewing the scenery, "Nice Nice baby," men's urinal put to novel use.