I'm wondering if the infant in the film has fired her agent for landing her this gig.
I love bawdy humor. I actually love bad movies ("The Thing With Two Heads", for example) but this one misses on every count and I'm supremely puzzled by the positive reviews along with alleged media critics asking if this is the "...funniest comedy of the year?"
Really?
The basic concept was not a bad one -- partying frat boys next door to a 30-something-couple-with-infant trying to retain their youthful coolness -- that the couple never convinces you they had in the first place.
As a former journalist who knows many useless small details, it grated on me that the frat house operated so far outside of municipal regulations its existence would never have been allowed along with rickety plot gimmicks that derail the couple's efforts to uproot the frat boys through official means.
The sexual humor was uncomfortably crude and unfunny rather than bawdy (i.e., the scene where a frat boy wins a fight using his erection) and there is not the slightest success in creating the most threadbare aura of believability necessary for genuine comedy.
Those who made this film could have taken some lesson's from Chaucer's Miller's Tale on how to handle off-color sexual humor and scatology with precision and good effect.
It seemed the writers thought up crude things and then reverse-engineered them into the script making it a collection of rather dumb gags disconnected from a discernible story arc.
My afternoon viewing of this film was interesting in that the entire audience was 60 or older and when the film ended the house was silent.
I love bawdy humor. I actually love bad movies ("The Thing With Two Heads", for example) but this one misses on every count and I'm supremely puzzled by the positive reviews along with alleged media critics asking if this is the "...funniest comedy of the year?"
Really?
The basic concept was not a bad one -- partying frat boys next door to a 30-something-couple-with-infant trying to retain their youthful coolness -- that the couple never convinces you they had in the first place.
As a former journalist who knows many useless small details, it grated on me that the frat house operated so far outside of municipal regulations its existence would never have been allowed along with rickety plot gimmicks that derail the couple's efforts to uproot the frat boys through official means.
The sexual humor was uncomfortably crude and unfunny rather than bawdy (i.e., the scene where a frat boy wins a fight using his erection) and there is not the slightest success in creating the most threadbare aura of believability necessary for genuine comedy.
Those who made this film could have taken some lesson's from Chaucer's Miller's Tale on how to handle off-color sexual humor and scatology with precision and good effect.
It seemed the writers thought up crude things and then reverse-engineered them into the script making it a collection of rather dumb gags disconnected from a discernible story arc.
My afternoon viewing of this film was interesting in that the entire audience was 60 or older and when the film ended the house was silent.