the crowd where I saw it was mixed and everyone was laughint out loud. In fact I missed some good lines there was so much laughing.
I saw The 40 Year Old Virgin 2 weeks ago. Lordy, I could not stop laughing! That was some funny shizzle!
I also have to disagree with the assessment that this hit rock bottom in crudity. Yes there are dirty jokes, lots of them. But the banter between the characters is just so so good, the writing was excellent. Almost every line was a memorable line. Very much in the style of wedding crashers and 40 year old virgin. refreshing to have a comedy w/o Will Ferrell BTW. Many actors from 40YOV are back in this movie.
Another comparison I made, is in real life this movie is not likely to happen, but isomehow the 40YOV story was.
Loved this movie.
I imagine it’s a stupid movie just like so many out there.
It sounds like a good exhibition of typical Boston-area college kids. Complete idiots who will eventually want everything that conservatism has to offer, but only “someday”.
While they are young, they pride themselves in liberal-everything, until forced to deal with the aftermath.
I love Steve Carell but 40 year old virgin was one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. The F bomb was dropped so many times it was ridiculous and I’m no prude. I turned it off after 30 minutes.
It’s hilarious, but I hard a hard time getting past a young, beautiful, focused, ambitious Katherine Heigl going for the slacker, dope-addled Rogen character. She’d have been better off having the baby on her own.
She hit the nail on the head. There IS this very strong pro-life message, but they really went overboard with the graphic nature of some of the scenes. Also the profanity: the f-bomb just isn’t funny. The only times I’ve seen the f-bomb actually carry a funny scene came during “Planes Trains and Automobiles”, and “GlenGarry Glen Ross”.
But the continuous profanity kept draining my sympathy for these two. You root for Seth Rogan because you just know he’s going to come around, but getting there is so painful at times, it’s almost not worth the trip.
I’ve been a big fan of Judd Apatow since “Freaks and Geeks”, but I think he sold out to the “gross-out” genre instead of building a great movie around smart - not tasteless - dialogue and imagery.
Hilarious but meaningful movie. I saw it with a friend and will see it again with my husband soon—the movie is sort of repulsive in a lot of ways but it also definitely presents abortion as a repulsive, horrifying “solution.”
(I don’t use foul language, ever, but didn’t even notice the movie’s bad language, really.)
‘Alison Scott, played by Grey’s Anatomy beauty Katherine Heigl, gets .....’
...on my nerves. She apparently thinks she’s ‘carrying the cast’ at Grey Anatomy. She’s wrong, she got the job because she has breasts, and is quite willing to show them on tv.
Right now, she’s about to get written off the show because of her contract demands.
Finally, I’ve had enough of this unknown UK actress lecturing Americans about gays, gay rights, and that overweight, over wrought TR Knight.
No matter how many castmates they have him sleep with, I still crack up watching the show (my wife insists...eyes rolling) attempt to rehabilitate him after being outted.
(rant off)
another review here with lots of spoilers
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/693bjobi.asp?pg=1