I gave it a shot because I was feeling braindead and it stars Owen Wilson (who I’m somehow not quite tired of yet) and Jason Sudeikis (who I still like, which we can probably credit to lingering afterglow from “Son Of Zorn”), rather than the usual never-once-have-made-me-laugh suspects (Sandler, etc.) And for maybe the first half of the movie it feel list maybe the Farrelly brothers have maybe matured just a tiny bit, from trying to appeal to 4th graders’ sense of humor to maybe even 9th graders’. But by the time the “humor” degenerates to “black men have huge dicks, and, that makes other men uncomfortable” you realize things have gotten worse, if anything, and it’s not a matter of maturity, but just plain stupidity. And, I wonder, what audience both: 1.) demands a brainless, cliched redemptive ending; and, also, 2.) thinks a person sneezing so hard they shit is, all by itself, funny enough to waste film minutes on? Does such a person really exist?
