Warp speed, captain! Spoilers ahead!
I should have seen this before, Apatow, yah yah, well, it’s very funny, but not elite like Superbad or Knocked Up or Anchorman…Jason Segel, you could have made this movie without showing us your penis…Kristen Bell is good in this and there’s plenty almost-boobage, but she doesn’t do the comedy as well as she does the emotional scenes – shame…Russell Brand is un-fucking-believable as the rocker. A brand of humor we haven’t seen before in Apatow movies – mayb it’s the British thing. Best line in the movie is his introduction, “Excuse me, missus, I’ve lost a shoe… like this one. It’s like this one’s fellow… it’s sort of the exact opposite in fact of that – not an evil version but just, you know, a shoe like this”…Jonah Hill has finally become annoying…Mila Kunis is smoking hot when she’s not acting like a shallow high school bitch in That 70’s Show…I couldn’t help thinking every time the black bartender was on screen that Craig Robinson could have done it better. Still, he had some awesome one-liners…I really hope that the Dracula song gets the Oscar for best song – it’s in the final 50, at least…I don’t know, Paul Rudd, you had a lot of classic potential in this character, but you played up the stoner aspect too much…I was constantly expecting a hilarious joke from Bill Hader while he was on screen, but he was painfully straight…best moment of the movie is easily Jason Segel’s reaction when the photos are deleted.
Good breakup movie – the emotion is genuine, as we’ve come to expect. But you can feel with this movie that the Apatow gold had finally worn off – this was still better than most comedies this year, but something was missing. And then Drillbit Taylor came out.
I Ate My DVD Collection 