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The basic story is a buddy trip. Two guys from different worlds are forced together to make a trip across America for very different reasons (later it becomes clear that it wasn’t actually fate). Peter Highman (Robert Downey Jnr) needs to get to Los Angeles for the birth of his first child and Ethan Tremblay (Zach Galifianakis ) has a meeting with an Agent in Hollywood as he wants to become an actor.
Now I was very excited about this movie (not just because it had my line in it a.k.a You better check yourself) after seeing the trailers and a "making of" on TV. Unfortunately it didn't quite live up to my expectations. I wasn’t expecting it to be ground breaking, I knew from the outset this was going to be a formula movie but I thought it would provide constant laughs. It didn’t.
There problem is, like with so many comedies, most of those laughs you have already seen in the trailer. There were a couple more but they were not as good as the ones you had already seen previously. If I hadn’t have seen the trailer then I think I would have enjoyed this more, I would definitely recommend it but it is not a movie that you will HAVE to tell your friends about.
The biggest problem is that the Ethan character is obviously the one that is there to provide the most laughs, I however laughed the most in a scene with Peter and the drug dealer’s kid (but that is a spoiler), yet there are times when you just hate Ethan, he didn’t always come across as the lovable retard (like in The hangover) but rather a fucking retard. I think the movie would have been better if they didn’t make him as dumb as he is. The acting is good, Downet Jnr is always good and he doesn’t disappoint here either. Galifianakis I think might have over done it a bit but I do think that this was the directors/script writers fault, they should have reigned him in a bit.
I was pleased that for the most part the humour was “intelligent” in that they didn’t resort to toilet humour and when they did it was appropriate.
So on the whole a good enough movie to watch, there are a good couple of laughs and the movie doesn’t drag but no great shakes. On the Fuck-Yeah-o-meter I would give it a 6.5/7 out of 10
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Originally Posted by NoMaD
