***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** This film made me laugh, simple as that, so it would qualify as a success as a comedy. The laughs are low-brow and you don't have to be an intellectual to understand or `get' the jokes when they come around. This movie seems to have a lot of words like `tired' attached to it, and many people question whether the Farrelly brothers started losing the comedy muscle with this movie and while I would agree with these statements, I think they are still wide of the mark in most cases.
This movie is meant to revolt you, make you cringe and leave you disbelieving that people would do some of the things that will happen and anyone that has a problem with this, I retort by saying `well, duh!' The main review that was on this page for this movie ripped it to pieces, which would have been fine except the person didn't even get the details of the movie right. I'm all for denouncing a movie, but please get the facts right if you're going to do it.
The story is simple. Boy meets girl, fall in love, get engaged and then find out their actually long lost brother and sister. Flash forward 16 months and we find girl engaged to wealthy small town man and boy with his newly found parents actually finding out that it was a mistake and they aren't related at all. Mother wants daughter to marry rich boy and neglects to tell daughter that boy is not her brother. Boy goes to said small town to win her back. Mother does everything in her power to stop boy, including making out he is a sexual predator. Well, it's actually pretty simple when you watch it. Plus there is some great subplot characters to go into the mix to keep the story moving.
There seems to be a very definite elitism when it comes to comedies such as this. Hey, I like a great dark comedy with many layers as much as the next person, but sometimes, I really like to just watch something that doesn't tax the brain. This falls into the latter category and has a sweet, twisted love story at its centre to boot. The acting from the leads isn't earth shattering but the support cast is a riot.
Don't look to hard and you will be entertained. 2¾ outta 5
This movie is meant to revolt you, make you cringe and leave you disbelieving that people would do some of the things that will happen and anyone that has a problem with this, I retort by saying `well, duh!' The main review that was on this page for this movie ripped it to pieces, which would have been fine except the person didn't even get the details of the movie right. I'm all for denouncing a movie, but please get the facts right if you're going to do it.
The story is simple. Boy meets girl, fall in love, get engaged and then find out their actually long lost brother and sister. Flash forward 16 months and we find girl engaged to wealthy small town man and boy with his newly found parents actually finding out that it was a mistake and they aren't related at all. Mother wants daughter to marry rich boy and neglects to tell daughter that boy is not her brother. Boy goes to said small town to win her back. Mother does everything in her power to stop boy, including making out he is a sexual predator. Well, it's actually pretty simple when you watch it. Plus there is some great subplot characters to go into the mix to keep the story moving.
There seems to be a very definite elitism when it comes to comedies such as this. Hey, I like a great dark comedy with many layers as much as the next person, but sometimes, I really like to just watch something that doesn't tax the brain. This falls into the latter category and has a sweet, twisted love story at its centre to boot. The acting from the leads isn't earth shattering but the support cast is a riot.
Don't look to hard and you will be entertained. 2¾ outta 5