I watched this movie Christmas night with my cousins, and I wasn't that impressed. Over at the IMDB, someone started a thread in the movie's message board, "The dumbest movie I've ever seen?", and this was my response in that thread:
"I don't think it's the dumbest, but it's not award material. The plot has been done before, and the jokes were are predictable. I think I had only three laugh-out-loud moments in the whole movie.
What saves it are the characterizations of some of the actors, most notably Zack Galifianakis and Ed Helms. And also Ken Jeong as Mr Chow-I didn't know what to make of that character at first, but I liked the way he played him.
But otherwise, it was basically a re-hash of "The Night Before", "License to Drive", "Adventures in Babysitting," "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead", "Saving Silverman", "Bachelor Party", "Mr Monk Goes to Vegas", just to name few."
It's OK, but some of those movies of which it's a derivative were much better. I don't think I'd buy it for my DVD library. But,
de gustibus non disputandem, of course!
Prost!
Brad
