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Anonymous
This just straight up was not a good film. The script was rushed and there was very little improv. The main problem I had with it (there were many) was that Rogen's character snaps between the serious anchor for the audience and the crazy stoner role at random and it makes him impossible to relate to. Is he the normal average joe, shocked at the craziness of his situation, as we would be? Half of the time, yes. Is he some crazy stoner, there for the lulz with no real understanding of what's happening? Half of the time, yes. In a comedy movie, you either have the main character as part of the crazy cookiness (Billy Madison, Ace Ventura, Naked Gun), or you have him as the connection to reality, the anchor to which the audience relates in an Alice in Wonderland type connection (40 year old Virgin, Orange County, Mr. Deeds). Now I'm just using this as an example, so don't bother telling me that Billy Madison and Mr. Deeds sucked, I don't care. But when you switch and swap between them, it just makes the character shallow and shit, which means they'll have less impact, be less memorable, and the movie will fade out with the trash. Which this film inevitably will.
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