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Unfunny and too many swear words

posted 11 years ago by stephenpaultaylor
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I swear. I swear tastefully. Im not a prude by any stretch of the imagination.

However, this was the first time I watched a movie and just thought... wow... they think that throwing the EFF word in ever sentence would somehow translate into laughs.

I didn't laugh once in this movie. I also just found it dumb. I watched the Odd Couple last week and I have to say, The Odd Couple was intelligent comedy with a heart. This was dumb... dumb characters doing dumb things for two hours... and throwing *beep* into every sentence, thinking that that would somehow elevate the humour. WRONG.

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[–] Degree7 9 years ago

This movie really is kind of a turd when you rewatch it. It's not so much the swearing, or even the tasteless jokes, but it's the 2010s cringe comedy and frat humour with its lame one liners. For example, how the boss (Colin farrel) is supposed to be funny because he has an awful comb over and wants to fire aleverybody because they're fat and ugly. And then his intentionally stupid lines like "This is the United States of me" or "hey dick wall." Those annoying non-sequiturs that make no sense and are designed to garner cheap laughs at their inanity. This is the Will Ferrel brand of comedy pioneered by him and his ilk from SNL.

I would rather watch Office Space again instead.

~ I'm a 21st century man and I don't wanna be here.

[–] stephenpaultaylor 9 years ago

A lot of that humour is along the lines of "look at me, i'm funny" as opposed to humour naturally arising organically out of situations

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