There was nothing funny from the movie. The movie isn’t good. The movie actually crosses over into awful quite gleefully, happily crossing the line from “so bad it’s fascinating” to “so bad I’m good with leaving right now” within thirty minutes. So, there’s that.
I can’t put my finger on ONE reason why it’s bad, but if I had a gun to my head and I had to choose, I’d call it a writing problem. Rogen played the character (a character so flawed as to be completely unlikable at first and then completely sad once you find out where the flaws come from) to the best of his nice, lovable asshole ability, but it was written poorly. Direction doesn’t always have to be there and the performances don’t always have to be there but JESUS CHRIST put pen to paper and be good about it if you’re going to write a movie. If you’re going to write a funny movie, even if it’s dumb comedy (as this one was striving with all its might to have) make it good, make it funny to just more people than your friends.
It’s as if the writer just had a few “wouldn’t it be funny if…” ideas and then tried to hang it on a weak plot with even weaker one note characters to try to flesh things out.
A few other superficial things: Anna Faris looks like a fish and shouldn’t be cast in anything ever that involves her being The Hot Girl. Seth Rogen firing a gun with never not be attractive to me (Seth Rogen doing anything will always be attractive to me to be honest, don’t judge). Unmedicated mental illness is NEVER FUNNY (touchy reviewer is touchy) and I left the theatre feeling dirty and not in the good way.
So…have fun with that.
