"Transformers 4: Age of Extinction"
The third sequel to Michael Bay's take on the iconic classic Transformers series reboots the humans.
As for canon the film makes it seem kind of like Transformers Animated, where Megatron'd head leads human inventor to build him a new body, and Transformers Prime Beast Hunters, where like in the classic series, Megatron is reborn again somehow, as though both meet. The never movies have always been about the post Armada stories, with a little of the classic peppered throughout, but never enough.
The comparisons with the series are superficial though, as the writing team were given only an outline and Bay ran off and filmed several explosive set pieces, then someone strung them into a semi cohesive plot.
Although there are more personalities with the robots, finally, they're still textbook Bay, not Transformers. This time though Optimus Prime comes off as kind of a jerk who wants to destory the humans for killing both Autobot and Decepticon kind alike. He goes in disguise and is adopted by a human, Cade Yeager, in Texas, who then discovers he's a Transformer. Then a top secret group making a lot of noise trashes his ranch while trying to find him, leading the hero, and his hot blonde teenage daughter, and her boyfriend, to a road trip to find other Transformers while on the run.
The two villains are a CIA guy named Harold Attinger and his lackey, Joshua Joyce, whereas Attinger is evil apparently and is pulling this corporate scientist to rebuild Megatron into Galvatron to destroy the Autobots, like there will be nothing wrong with that.
Cade, Tessa and Shane are on the run and eventually make it to the desert where they run into the Autobots, new ones that sound bizarre, but not too offensive, except for maybe the homage to samurai. Then they high tail it to Chiocago, which looks pretty gfood for a city that was decimated 5 years before. They then break into Joyce's secret lab and try to convince him he's doing evil.
Somehow later on they encounter a Decepticon ship that formerly was commanded by the Klights, whoever they were, and is now under Lockdown, a Decepticon bounty hunter with a gun face. You'd think the recoil would blow his head off. Oh well.
Lockdown wants to get the all spark so he can blow it up in Hong Kong, but they call it the Seed this time, and it looks like a metal robot poo.
They group somehow gets onto the alien ship, captured, and must escaping, leading eventually to Hong Kong where there is an epic series of battles and spy versus spy, and where finally the Autobots enlist the Dinobots to help them fight the Deceptions and get that spark thing slash bomb, slash cyber forming metal maker back.
So the seed acts like the key for Vector Sigma and if you blow it up it's bad. Got it.
Well it's not a horrible waste of time, with its similarities to other stories, and even online fan films like mine, from years back, but it is at times a little long and nauseating.
At least they got rid of the endless stream of dumb jokes and only went for some of the mawkish humor.
I saw the 3D version which was also kind of painful. Later I will have to see the other version.
Review by Adam Browne
Friday, June 27, 2014
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Review: "Cloud Atlas" is engaging but ultimately a reference to karma
"Cloud Atlas" R
This complicated Wachowski sibling vehicle is a Tom Hanks and Halley Berry acting adventure in an attempt to get a 2012 Oscar. Now that it is 2014, it has actually been seen for review here. It probably needs a second viewing, but it's tedious so it will not be necessary.
It is not actually about time travel, as the trailer implies, but about some kind of meta trip by souls through history, connected like a sort of far eastern allegory, crossed with a lot of weuropean cultural hangups, people in strange eras and costumes, and a really completely disconnected science fiction world at the end.
The reason for this is that much of the earlier footage set in the past, from the 1800s stuff to the 1970s stuff, was shot by several crews. It is three or four different movies. If you like one of them, then just watch that.
Although they do not reference video games they do reference use of cell phones and old movies, including an obvious and rather jarring reference to Soylent Green, specificially the ending, which actually gives away one of the plot twists later on.
Fahrenheit 451 is also referenced.
In the far off distant future, a former native of Big Island in a future similar to that in The Time Machine, is telling his grandchildren about being trapped on devastated Earth and being rescued by the humans that left the planet for space colonies.
Fifty some years earlier, the tribesman is trapped in a war over land while a mysterious ghost chases him, and a human from a space crew that has been studying the tribe breaks regulations and rescues the man.
Over a century earlier, in a future Seoul, Korea, a mysterious AI robot server becomes the Christ like leader of a rebellion unwittingly when she is saved by a mysterious stranger.
In the present day, 2012, an old man is trapped in a nursing home.
Then in the 1970s, a woman reporter must stop a mysterious environmental scandal when she unwittingly falls into a crime scene.
In the 1930s there is something about a mysterious author and some bad guys.
In the 1800s during slavery times there is a sea crossing where a man is poisoned by a crazed rich guy so he can steal his money, slowly.
Many of these stories allegedly intertwine because actors play several parts. The original story was a novel that was nearly not adaptable to screen. This could have been much better played as a miniseries, each episode taking place in each time period, so there was no flash forward, flashback stuff until the last act.
The jumps become disconcerting like the directors were on drugs, or had serious ADHD, or both.
Yes the directors were in love with the sound of their own stuff, and it shows, and yes it was based on a book of similar pretense, but still guys, come on.
Although it is not a bad movie, and it is engaging, it's just too confusing, and should have been two movies or a miniseries.
Clearly the concept was such a big idea they claimed destiny somehow makes people reborn over and over, like karma, and that somehow everything is connected. Six Degrees of Wachowski, with creepy undertones of that the creators are secretly in love with each other for real, not just in the movie.
They even have messages about intolerance everywhere, and that's okay, but it is 2012 as of the story and there should be very little left to the imagination about that.
And it was also directed by this other crew that did all the stuff that made more sense, but they don't get much mention.
So it is a mess but it's not a bad movie. It's probably on the bargain bin so it might be fund to have playing in the background at a party while discussing the nature of movies and destiny.
Review by Adam Browne
This complicated Wachowski sibling vehicle is a Tom Hanks and Halley Berry acting adventure in an attempt to get a 2012 Oscar. Now that it is 2014, it has actually been seen for review here. It probably needs a second viewing, but it's tedious so it will not be necessary.
It is not actually about time travel, as the trailer implies, but about some kind of meta trip by souls through history, connected like a sort of far eastern allegory, crossed with a lot of weuropean cultural hangups, people in strange eras and costumes, and a really completely disconnected science fiction world at the end.
The reason for this is that much of the earlier footage set in the past, from the 1800s stuff to the 1970s stuff, was shot by several crews. It is three or four different movies. If you like one of them, then just watch that.
Although they do not reference video games they do reference use of cell phones and old movies, including an obvious and rather jarring reference to Soylent Green, specificially the ending, which actually gives away one of the plot twists later on.
Fahrenheit 451 is also referenced.
In the far off distant future, a former native of Big Island in a future similar to that in The Time Machine, is telling his grandchildren about being trapped on devastated Earth and being rescued by the humans that left the planet for space colonies.
Fifty some years earlier, the tribesman is trapped in a war over land while a mysterious ghost chases him, and a human from a space crew that has been studying the tribe breaks regulations and rescues the man.
Over a century earlier, in a future Seoul, Korea, a mysterious AI robot server becomes the Christ like leader of a rebellion unwittingly when she is saved by a mysterious stranger.
In the present day, 2012, an old man is trapped in a nursing home.
Then in the 1970s, a woman reporter must stop a mysterious environmental scandal when she unwittingly falls into a crime scene.
In the 1930s there is something about a mysterious author and some bad guys.
In the 1800s during slavery times there is a sea crossing where a man is poisoned by a crazed rich guy so he can steal his money, slowly.
Many of these stories allegedly intertwine because actors play several parts. The original story was a novel that was nearly not adaptable to screen. This could have been much better played as a miniseries, each episode taking place in each time period, so there was no flash forward, flashback stuff until the last act.
The jumps become disconcerting like the directors were on drugs, or had serious ADHD, or both.
Yes the directors were in love with the sound of their own stuff, and it shows, and yes it was based on a book of similar pretense, but still guys, come on.
Although it is not a bad movie, and it is engaging, it's just too confusing, and should have been two movies or a miniseries.
Clearly the concept was such a big idea they claimed destiny somehow makes people reborn over and over, like karma, and that somehow everything is connected. Six Degrees of Wachowski, with creepy undertones of that the creators are secretly in love with each other for real, not just in the movie.
They even have messages about intolerance everywhere, and that's okay, but it is 2012 as of the story and there should be very little left to the imagination about that.
And it was also directed by this other crew that did all the stuff that made more sense, but they don't get much mention.
So it is a mess but it's not a bad movie. It's probably on the bargain bin so it might be fund to have playing in the background at a party while discussing the nature of movies and destiny.
Review by Adam Browne
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Review: "A Million Ways to Die in the West" tries very hard to be 'Blazing Saddles'
"A Million Ways to Die in the West" R
Taking a page or more from Rob Zemekis, Mel Brooks and Quentin Tarantino, Seth McFarlane's corny western ode is a ballad of gross jokes and gunfight cliches but it actually works somehow. The creators of Ted and a few Comedy Central shorts summon their inner cowboy and go out to the 1880s in Arizona.
This is nowhere near the town in Back to the Future 3 even though it's referenced in the trailer, Hill Valley California is clearly some town near Los Angeles in that film, and that scene was in 1885, not 1883 when this takes place.
The town is not all that important though. The gag is that it's such an awful hell hole that frequently people randomly die just because chance is a bad, bad thing. The hero is a sheep 'farmer' who is dumped by his girl because she likes a man with a mustache. His upright Christian friend is a clueless puppy who is dating the town harlot, at the cat house, and is oblivious to this fact even when told repeatedly.
Then in comes the oily bad guy, the nastiest gunslinger in the west, who married his partner ridiculously young, and runs around killing defenseless prospectors and anyone who looks at him funny. The wife though runs on ahead during a raid and befriends the hero, teaching him about life while observing the town's self destruction firsthand.
Eventually it will be up to the hero to face the villain and save the day, but along the way he gets high off an overdose of Indian spirits and gets into several near gunfights.
It could have been a hilarious movie, and at times it almost is roaring funny, but the jokes are mostly gross outs, that modern stock of joke where it's funny to make someone poop in a hat...a lot. (It was pretty funny actually).
Then at times is tries so hard to imitate Blazing Saddles that one half expects the cabaret ending. I will not give away the Tarantino connection though. They go there.
Some things in this movie are just downright mean, from the dastardly villain to the disaffected parents of the hero who when he was a boy left him a disgusting surprise from the Tooth Fairy.
The gags about the cathouse are actually pretty clever. At one point a bandit holds up the feeble guy and his hooker girlfriend and his reply is, 'Don't shoot us during night sex'. Ha.
The all star cast is well known and they seem to enjoy the film.
It's not a great movie but it would make a decent rental or even to own on the bargain bin.
Review by Adam Browne
Taking a page or more from Rob Zemekis, Mel Brooks and Quentin Tarantino, Seth McFarlane's corny western ode is a ballad of gross jokes and gunfight cliches but it actually works somehow. The creators of Ted and a few Comedy Central shorts summon their inner cowboy and go out to the 1880s in Arizona.
This is nowhere near the town in Back to the Future 3 even though it's referenced in the trailer, Hill Valley California is clearly some town near Los Angeles in that film, and that scene was in 1885, not 1883 when this takes place.
The town is not all that important though. The gag is that it's such an awful hell hole that frequently people randomly die just because chance is a bad, bad thing. The hero is a sheep 'farmer' who is dumped by his girl because she likes a man with a mustache. His upright Christian friend is a clueless puppy who is dating the town harlot, at the cat house, and is oblivious to this fact even when told repeatedly.
Then in comes the oily bad guy, the nastiest gunslinger in the west, who married his partner ridiculously young, and runs around killing defenseless prospectors and anyone who looks at him funny. The wife though runs on ahead during a raid and befriends the hero, teaching him about life while observing the town's self destruction firsthand.
Eventually it will be up to the hero to face the villain and save the day, but along the way he gets high off an overdose of Indian spirits and gets into several near gunfights.
It could have been a hilarious movie, and at times it almost is roaring funny, but the jokes are mostly gross outs, that modern stock of joke where it's funny to make someone poop in a hat...a lot. (It was pretty funny actually).
Then at times is tries so hard to imitate Blazing Saddles that one half expects the cabaret ending. I will not give away the Tarantino connection though. They go there.
Some things in this movie are just downright mean, from the dastardly villain to the disaffected parents of the hero who when he was a boy left him a disgusting surprise from the Tooth Fairy.
The gags about the cathouse are actually pretty clever. At one point a bandit holds up the feeble guy and his hooker girlfriend and his reply is, 'Don't shoot us during night sex'. Ha.
The all star cast is well known and they seem to enjoy the film.
It's not a great movie but it would make a decent rental or even to own on the bargain bin.
Review by Adam Browne
Review: "Edge of Tomorrow" plays to edgy Tom Cruise and battletech gamers
"Edge of Tomorrow" PG 13
Doug Liman directs a movie version of 'All You Need is Kill' with Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt playing special forces people in an alien invasion. What could possible go wrong? Well in minutes of the big action landing, they die! Then they are rebooted to another timeline, ala Groundhog Day, or maybe Halo or Eve, or Starcraft, with elements of any number of strategy video games. The mech suits look something like exoskeleton armor from any number of games, as mech warriors and armored soldier games are everywhere. So why not make a movie about it? The novel might not be much like this though.
The idea that Tom's colonel character is moving through time is silly but go witrh it. He gets splashed on by alien blood and gets powers because the alien Omega's brain somehow has the ability to time shift. Yep, it seems pretty out there. It is science fantasy. It also seems like the Lords of Xenu might have inspired it. (Tom is a Scientologist, but not his character). Anyway, so aside fro audience members cracking jokes about the silly mad scientist 'Is he L Ron Hubbard?'or the alien brain, 'Is that Xenu'? the movie is so nuts that it's actually entertaining.
It was a better movie than 'Oblivion' just by including actual people and having actual tension going on that didn't seem immediately forced or robotic. Tossed into the action, the direction moves when it should, and the slomo is not embarrassing, although a lot of the Paris part was so dark! In 3D it must have been nearly black.
Each time Cage dies he gets more powers somehow, which is never explained, or at least doesn't make sense, but the audience seemed okay with it. The idea is that somehow he can recall not only what happened before, but also pull in strength and alertness from other timelines, because of the alien blood that gets sprayed on him. This is really a stretch, but somehow seems more rational than the alien plan.
The aliens are some kind of land squid things with glowing blue blood that use time travel as a defense against planets they invade. This seems cool on the off set until you step back and figure, how the heck did they evolve such a power? Then how does Cage somehow use it? How does Rita lose it,really? If Cage and Rita, the main characters, are always in a paradox, there is no losing or gaining from the share. If anything, they gain from it. Then why would the aliens be dumb enough to allow such a power to be passed on to their enemies through bleeding on them? Dumb idea. They would then know all and see all eventually.
Then again, in Battlefield Earth (with John Travolta of Xenu) the aliens teach humans to understandf math, and fly the invasion that decimates their plans, so aliens in this story follow the same logicor lack thereof.
Time travel is a total head banger. But at least this movie says ignore that because a lot of cool stuff explodes and it's a video game and it thankfully is not Michael Bay or M Night Slayaman.
Xenu would also thank them. Ha. Is it mocking Scientology or just time travel, you decide, and see in in theaters or buy it later.
Maybe the makers of Starcraft and Eve should consider suing this movie maker! Ha.
Review by Adam Browne
Doug Liman directs a movie version of 'All You Need is Kill' with Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt playing special forces people in an alien invasion. What could possible go wrong? Well in minutes of the big action landing, they die! Then they are rebooted to another timeline, ala Groundhog Day, or maybe Halo or Eve, or Starcraft, with elements of any number of strategy video games. The mech suits look something like exoskeleton armor from any number of games, as mech warriors and armored soldier games are everywhere. So why not make a movie about it? The novel might not be much like this though.
The idea that Tom's colonel character is moving through time is silly but go witrh it. He gets splashed on by alien blood and gets powers because the alien Omega's brain somehow has the ability to time shift. Yep, it seems pretty out there. It is science fantasy. It also seems like the Lords of Xenu might have inspired it. (Tom is a Scientologist, but not his character). Anyway, so aside fro audience members cracking jokes about the silly mad scientist 'Is he L Ron Hubbard?'or the alien brain, 'Is that Xenu'? the movie is so nuts that it's actually entertaining.
It was a better movie than 'Oblivion' just by including actual people and having actual tension going on that didn't seem immediately forced or robotic. Tossed into the action, the direction moves when it should, and the slomo is not embarrassing, although a lot of the Paris part was so dark! In 3D it must have been nearly black.
Each time Cage dies he gets more powers somehow, which is never explained, or at least doesn't make sense, but the audience seemed okay with it. The idea is that somehow he can recall not only what happened before, but also pull in strength and alertness from other timelines, because of the alien blood that gets sprayed on him. This is really a stretch, but somehow seems more rational than the alien plan.
The aliens are some kind of land squid things with glowing blue blood that use time travel as a defense against planets they invade. This seems cool on the off set until you step back and figure, how the heck did they evolve such a power? Then how does Cage somehow use it? How does Rita lose it,really? If Cage and Rita, the main characters, are always in a paradox, there is no losing or gaining from the share. If anything, they gain from it. Then why would the aliens be dumb enough to allow such a power to be passed on to their enemies through bleeding on them? Dumb idea. They would then know all and see all eventually.
Then again, in Battlefield Earth (with John Travolta of Xenu) the aliens teach humans to understandf math, and fly the invasion that decimates their plans, so aliens in this story follow the same logicor lack thereof.
Time travel is a total head banger. But at least this movie says ignore that because a lot of cool stuff explodes and it's a video game and it thankfully is not Michael Bay or M Night Slayaman.
Xenu would also thank them. Ha. Is it mocking Scientology or just time travel, you decide, and see in in theaters or buy it later.
Maybe the makers of Starcraft and Eve should consider suing this movie maker! Ha.
Review by Adam Browne
Review: "X Men: Days of Future Past" attempts to retcon mistakes from past films
"X Men: Days of Future Past" PG 13
The follow up to 'The Wolverine (in Japan)" is directed by Bryan Singer, who for let Bret Ratner direct the third movie, agreeably the weakest link in the series, so he could go on an make Superman Returns the most darkly adoring stalk slasher movie ever. Yes, he knew that the script for The Lat Stand sucked, and pawned it off to the other guy, hoping he'd take the fall. Well this is according to legend.
In this remake he attempts to redeem his mistakes by putting Wolverine in the future where mutans and humans are being exterminated by crazed robot Sentinels and Cable is in it, (but miscast), and Professor X and Magento of the future have a way to send his consciousness back into time. They have this mutant that can do it, and she sends Wolverine's mind back to 1973 to try and convince the cast of X Men First Class to team up and stop the assassination of a short and frustrated Ron Burgundy clone who is trying to build those pesky Sentinels.
Thank goodness it is not about trying to change the Kennedy era somehow, but it is mentioned that Magneto was arrested for the infamous Kennedy assassination, but was framed. Wolverine and his new found mutant allies must bust him out to restore the timeline.
Singer plans all along to try and kiss butt to X Men fans and try and right The Last Stand. This review will got give away if he does or not.
Yes, the story is based on the comic books where the Phoenix saga leads into the Cable saga and Days of Future Past, and then Apocalypse, which will be next, but this time the adaptation works. The 1990s cartoon series covered this ground also, and they got Cable better, but that's an aside. They also did Phoenix better. Still the comics were probably better.
The movie is worth seeing in theaters and on Bluray later.
Review by Adam Browne
The follow up to 'The Wolverine (in Japan)" is directed by Bryan Singer, who for let Bret Ratner direct the third movie, agreeably the weakest link in the series, so he could go on an make Superman Returns the most darkly adoring stalk slasher movie ever. Yes, he knew that the script for The Lat Stand sucked, and pawned it off to the other guy, hoping he'd take the fall. Well this is according to legend.
In this remake he attempts to redeem his mistakes by putting Wolverine in the future where mutans and humans are being exterminated by crazed robot Sentinels and Cable is in it, (but miscast), and Professor X and Magento of the future have a way to send his consciousness back into time. They have this mutant that can do it, and she sends Wolverine's mind back to 1973 to try and convince the cast of X Men First Class to team up and stop the assassination of a short and frustrated Ron Burgundy clone who is trying to build those pesky Sentinels.
Thank goodness it is not about trying to change the Kennedy era somehow, but it is mentioned that Magneto was arrested for the infamous Kennedy assassination, but was framed. Wolverine and his new found mutant allies must bust him out to restore the timeline.
Singer plans all along to try and kiss butt to X Men fans and try and right The Last Stand. This review will got give away if he does or not.
Yes, the story is based on the comic books where the Phoenix saga leads into the Cable saga and Days of Future Past, and then Apocalypse, which will be next, but this time the adaptation works. The 1990s cartoon series covered this ground also, and they got Cable better, but that's an aside. They also did Phoenix better. Still the comics were probably better.
The movie is worth seeing in theaters and on Bluray later.
Review by Adam Browne
Review: "Neighbors" tries to update feel of 'Animal House' and almost makes it work
"Neighbors" R
Nicholas Stoller (Get Him to the Greek) directs this comedy. Seth Rogan, Rose Byrne and Zack Efron tackle the frat boy comedy in this mix match of Animal House meets Christmas Vacation, two classic movies that the Efron crowd have probably never seen or heard of. For the uninitiated, there was a party hard dude named John Belushi (you might have heard of his younger brother, Jim), who was one of the Saturday Night Live original Not ready for Prime Time Players in the late 1970s. He was playing a college student who was de facto clown of a frat house at a Canadian college that was into all sorts of trouble. Parents hated the film and said it made children think bad things were good. Same old thing here. Or was it? Then Chevy Chase, another SNL alumni from the Prime Time players, was part of the Vacation franchise, the best of which is his Christmas one, where his dopey family is stuck at home for the Holidays and all manner of trouble happens.
Now just imagine Belushi's rebel, gross out gag spewing, naughty man child growing up a little, and having a family. Seth Rogan is essentially his character, or more like his caricature, his inspired everyman.
When the naughty family discovers that their new neighbors are a frat house led by Efron, they immediately want to join them, but the culture clash is the joke. They can't relate. Their jokes are from the 1980s, (granted Animal House was in the 70s, but this is because Rogan is playing someone like like Belushi, not Belushi literally).
The frat soon tires of the nagging couple, who have a baby and need their rest, and seek frat pranks as a form of revenge, but then the couple decide to get them back, as they did in college apparently with another group some time in the late 1980s. (Guess)?
Anyway, this leads to funny moments, so there is much comedic screwball joking, some crude jokes, a truly demented milking scene, and a prank involving making fake penises to amuse the college. Also there are a lot of raunchy jokes and some pranks go wrong. All of this leads to a half way decent comedy movie that doesn't try too hard to be over the top, but when it is it nearly reaches a startled laugh, even a few blasts of 'oh did they just do that, wow', which for this generation is their form of humor.
It is worth owning on the Bluray later, which is sure to have an unrated version.Some of the jokes they just couldn't get away with. If you don't like raunchy humor with people pranking and 'punking' each other, don't see it. But don't complain about it that it causes kids to act crazy. It doesn't any more than sugar.
Review by Adam Browne
Nicholas Stoller (Get Him to the Greek) directs this comedy. Seth Rogan, Rose Byrne and Zack Efron tackle the frat boy comedy in this mix match of Animal House meets Christmas Vacation, two classic movies that the Efron crowd have probably never seen or heard of. For the uninitiated, there was a party hard dude named John Belushi (you might have heard of his younger brother, Jim), who was one of the Saturday Night Live original Not ready for Prime Time Players in the late 1970s. He was playing a college student who was de facto clown of a frat house at a Canadian college that was into all sorts of trouble. Parents hated the film and said it made children think bad things were good. Same old thing here. Or was it? Then Chevy Chase, another SNL alumni from the Prime Time players, was part of the Vacation franchise, the best of which is his Christmas one, where his dopey family is stuck at home for the Holidays and all manner of trouble happens.
Now just imagine Belushi's rebel, gross out gag spewing, naughty man child growing up a little, and having a family. Seth Rogan is essentially his character, or more like his caricature, his inspired everyman.
When the naughty family discovers that their new neighbors are a frat house led by Efron, they immediately want to join them, but the culture clash is the joke. They can't relate. Their jokes are from the 1980s, (granted Animal House was in the 70s, but this is because Rogan is playing someone like like Belushi, not Belushi literally).
The frat soon tires of the nagging couple, who have a baby and need their rest, and seek frat pranks as a form of revenge, but then the couple decide to get them back, as they did in college apparently with another group some time in the late 1980s. (Guess)?
Anyway, this leads to funny moments, so there is much comedic screwball joking, some crude jokes, a truly demented milking scene, and a prank involving making fake penises to amuse the college. Also there are a lot of raunchy jokes and some pranks go wrong. All of this leads to a half way decent comedy movie that doesn't try too hard to be over the top, but when it is it nearly reaches a startled laugh, even a few blasts of 'oh did they just do that, wow', which for this generation is their form of humor.
It is worth owning on the Bluray later, which is sure to have an unrated version.Some of the jokes they just couldn't get away with. If you don't like raunchy humor with people pranking and 'punking' each other, don't see it. But don't complain about it that it causes kids to act crazy. It doesn't any more than sugar.
Review by Adam Browne
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