Eh. It just wasn’t very funny. It was a pleasant enough movie but it just didn’t hold my interest. I’m a big fan of Samberg & Co.’s Digital Shorts on SNL. But maybe they wouldn’t work either if they were stretched out to 2 hours. Some of the jokes in the film seem like the kind of things comedians brainstorm in a writer’s meeting but probably sound much better as an idea rather than actually doing it. Other jokes feel like they were just shoe-horned in so the guys could do something “quirky” that didn’t have anything to do with the movie. You never really find much out about these characters or why they do the things they do. Why does Rod keep doing stunts when he always fails? Why do his friends support him so blindly? I know it’s just a silly movie but there really wasn’t much to grab on to in terms of empathizing with this guy. A movie like this wants you to root for the lead character, but we’re not given a good enough reason WHY we should root for him. All would have been forgiven if the movie was really funny, but unfortunately it falls short.
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