Average 4.2 rating
(out of 5 reviews)
Sorry, this movie was no fun for me at all. My husband didn't like it either, and we see plenty of silly comedies so I'm not at all some kind of film snob. But this did not work. If it didn't have these stars and the high concept bachelor party going on, it would have been straight to DVD.
Very disappointing, because I know people who lurrved it. A few random laughs here and there, but for the most part the story had so many WTF moments that didn't make sense, that it became irritating and downright boring to watch. There's only so far disbelief can suspend before you want to punch the writers who threw together this high concept movie and stuck it together with semen and alcohol.
There's nothing I hate more than lazy writing. You CAN make a really funny lowbrow comedy (see 40 yr old Virgin) where the characters and plot actually make freaking sense. If I turned something like this in, my editor would write me off as a hopeless hack and probably slap me through the phone.
The actors are having fun, there are some funny gags and the fat guy has the best lines, but overall we pretty much fast forwarded through it just to see where the missing dude was.
Spoiler alert:
The characters' actions made no sense. So you wake up and find a tiger in your suite, a tiny baby, and your friend is missing. Let's not call the cops and find our friend, who might be dead. Let's just wander around for two days looking for clues like you're Dora the Explorer. You would think that the responsible dentist would become alarmed that there is a baby in his suite and call the authorities.
In particular, hated Bradley Cooper's irredeemable and downright evil character, who we first see stealing money from his students. He doesn't care when they find a baby and figures it's not his, so who cares? He supposedly has a wife and kid, whom we don't see until the end. I mean, if he had showed a modicum of caring toward the baby, maybe I would not have been rooting for the tiger to eat his ass.
Also, you can't count cards anymore due to the machinery they use. If they were in some rinkydink casino in Reno, maybe.
Why would the guy bring his grandmother's antique PRICELESS wedding ring all the way to Las Vegas to show his buddies that he is going to propose to his GF in a DIFFERENT CITY, the city where he lives, two days later? I'll tell you why. It's plot-convenient.
Why would a mother, hooker with a heart o'gold Heather Graham, randomly leave her beloved baby in the closet with some passed out dudes whose douchery she has witnessed? What does she do on other nights while she's stripping, leave the baby in her closet at home?? And now she's supposed to be a good mom and good person? Yes, what a sweetheart.
Other tidbits: Where did they find that Baby Bjorn carrier? Why didn't the baby get hungry? Why did they leave the baby in the PATROL CAR IN LAS VEGAS in the daytime? Why didn't the baby poop or pee? Why were the very beat cops who lost the car in charge of interrogating them? I'll tell you why. The writers threw these things in for convenience.