Review: A horribly unfunny comedy and an even worse political commentary.
My main desire out of a comedy is to laugh. However not a single joke in this movie made me laugh in the slightest or even smile. To be honest I am at a complete loss as to how anything in this movie was supposed to be even the slightest bit funny. This movie employed mainly two types of comedy and failed miserably at both. The first of these comedy types was of the vulgar variety. The problem here is the problem that exists in too many vulgar comedies. The movie is convinced that vulgarity in and of its self is hilarious. With this in mind the movie ups the vulgarity by throwing in constant sex jokes and F-bombs, thinking that the more vulgar it gets the funnier it is. Instead of funny though, the humor comes off as immature and a little embarrassing. The other type of humor employed here is political satire. Believe it or not this is actually worse than the vulgar humor. The political jokes are neither funny or thought provoking, but tired and lazy. Have you ever heard a Fox News is bigoted joke before? Of course you have, because we all have and to this many jokes about that nothing is different. This film offers no new insight into how Fox News is bigoted, but instead just tells us what we have heard people say about it a million times. Since we are so familiar with hearing this, as political commentary this is simply lazy and pointless. The humor of these scenes comes from people on a thinly disguised Fox News like channel saying something bigoted. As humor this is just as lazy and it is hard to imagine anyone actually laughing at it.
With how bad the humor is the story and characters are hardly better. These are also tired and cliché. This is basically an opposites attract story and it is true that opposites often do attract. However besides being opposites, there is little else to say about these characters. They simply feel to be stereotypes of movie characters rather than actual movie characters. The storyline is a typical romantic comedy story, and feels like it is simply going through the motions.
Avoid this movie.
-Michael J. Ruhland
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