Ben called it - this movie promised very little but them delivered it. Plenty of laugh at the stupidity moments (watching Beck fall to pieces was actually more fun than the film itself) and plenty of shirtless Will Farrell improvising in typical carpet bomb fashion (say a million stupid things, one or two will stick and be funny). Amy Poehler and Will Arnett were exceptionally C+ish in their roles, except for the chase on skates scene - the escalator section of this was just a fantastic absurdist handbrake to the cliche. Many reviewers have likened this to a one joke SNL skit that instead of going on 6 minutes too long went to 80 minutes too long - it's hard to disagree, but it's not like anyone thought or pretended that this would be more. I think Will Ferrel is just good enough to mandate a middle range ranking of his films - they're all pretty stupid but enjoyable enough, and not so bad as to make you angry. I put this one not as good as Talladega Nights or Anchorman but better than Old School and idiocy like Kicking and Screaming. (Stranger than Fiction, another movie I panned, doesn't really fit in this stu-comedy genre).
I will say this though...maybe, just maybe the whole movie was made worth it by pushing Jenna Fischer into the official super-cutie next door pantheon:
Yes, on second consideration, a special thanks to the iron fist, PGoat and Grin for dragging me to this movie. I guess it all Pammed out after all.
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