Pretty good. Not as good as Old School, not to mention Caddyshack. But pretty good.

tmidgett wrote:Pretty good. Not as good as Old School,

the jokes are definitely not as good as in Old School. the problem with both of these movies is too much plot. they could have cut half an hour out of each and made two incredible films.

tmidgett wrote:Pretty good. Not as good as Old School, not to mention Caddyshack. But pretty good.

You're forgetting a few other recent movies it's not quite as good as:
40 Year Old Virgin
Anchorman
Blackballed: the Bobby Dukes Story

I'm sure there are others as well. Basically, I put this movie on a similar level with Dodgeball. It's funny, sometimes hysterical, but just not quite there.

Get rid of some of the sappy parts and it's a really funny movie.

Will Farrell, whom I don't normally like, is great in this movie.

NOT CRAP.

-Jeremy

kerble wrote:

tmidgett wrote:Pretty good. Not as good as Old School,

the jokes are definitely not as good as in Old School. the problem with both of these movies is too much plot. they could have cut half an hour out of each and made two incredible films.

Old School is also a bit too "slick," but I think that Old School is actually good. Too much plot though...yeah. Wedding Crashers is really bogged down by the sappy stuff. In contrast, the plot stuff in Old School...I could definitely deal with it.

40 Year Old Virgin is also a good movie (except for the end sequence)...and it doesn't come across as being quite as slick and buddy buddy (<- i.e.-WILL FERRELL, BEN STILLER, THE WILSON BROTHERS, AND VINCE VAUGHN DO NOT HAVE TO BE IN EVERY COMEDY EVER MADE FROM NOW ON!) as all the high profile comedies that come out now.

Still, give me Animal House and Caddyshack and the like...as Doug Stanhope once said (to paraphrase), my generation is getting so screwed over with "safety" and crappy music...

How on earth can you not like the final sequence in 40-year Old Virgin?

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The whole point of the movie is that there was no way the final *ahem* climax could live up to the anticipation, so the characters did what movie characters always do when they don't how else to express an emotion - burst into song! I thought it was fucking brilliant and an absolutely hilarious and delightful way to end it. The only possible appropriate ending.

Ty Webb wrote:How on earth can you not like the final sequence in 40-year Old Virgin?

40yr Old Virgin is a great movie.

I singled out Old School b/c it's the same kind of movie as Wedding Crashers, just a little better.

40yr Old Virgin isn't the same kind of movie. It's sneaky like that.

That was for Minotaur (or anyone else who picks out the ending of all scenes not to like).

I just got such a kick out of the end of that movie, I'm surprised that's the one part someone would have a problem with.

I actually HATED "40-yr Old Virgin". I thought the humor was depressingly sophomoric and dumb and not anywhere near the level of the gems delivered by Messr. Vaughn in "Wedding Crashers". I've always thought of "40-yr. Old Virgin" as a comedy film for readers of MAXIM magazine. H8'ers can h8 on if they must, but this is the Bear's verdict.

I loved "Anchorman," however.

kerble wrote: the problem with both of these movies is too much plot. they could have cut half an hour out of each and made two incredible films.

Kerble, you are right on the money. "Wedding Crashers" has a significant weakness: a bullshit romantic connection between Owen Wilson and his plain-Jane, horse-faced sexual interest. Who the fuck cares about this nonsense? More Vaughn!

If it were Vaughn for 90 minutes, the movie would constitute the Titanic of the comedy genre.