| 8/10 A film that lives up the hype this year! Makes Pineapple Express look like the shitty, half baked mess it is. Everybody has a favorite line out of this, don't you think? Probably not the funniest, but I did a spit take after Jack Black says to Nolte, "Did you grow hands??" Subjectivity of comedy, baby, subjectivity. Or, that little blooper where Downey says a line and starts to grin like he's about to bust up? Genius to be kept in the final product; awkward, but it works. It has a few rough patches here and there at the start -- I didn't think the mock trailers were all that, and it's a tired practice a year after Grindhouse did likewise. You could say this is basically a 150 million dollar in-joke between Mr. Stiller and his friends, but the satire and jokes made up for it 80% of the time...it was on. Were they any post-credit hijinks I missed at the end? I had to race out pretty quickly and was wondering if there was any more closure with Tugg, Lazarus, et al. |