Starring Jack Black, James Marsden, Kathryn Hahn and Jeffrey Tambor
The head of a high school reunion committee, Dan Landsman travels to Los Angeles to track down the most popular guy from his graduating class and convince him to go to the reunion. While there, the two develop an unexpected bond that Dan would just like to forget.
I'm sure many will find this movie homophobic, I don't feel that is the case. The foundation of the movie is a man who feels under appreciated and will do anything he can to be noticed and loved by his peers. That is a sentiment we can all relate to at some point in our lives.
Equally awkward and outrageous, this movie fails to land on many of it's jokes and gags. While their are a few giggles, they are separated by minutes upon minutes of shielding your eyes from the uncomfortable nature of the story. I am positive that that is what the filmmakers wanted to accomplish, but it made for an experience that caused me to check my phone constantly.
The scenes, references and jokes that are funny in this movie are really, genuinely funny. But they are too few and far between to make it consistently enjoyable. As a fan of Jack Black, it was good seeing him back on the big screen, regardless of what I was watching. And this is undoubtedly his most outrageous role to date. If that's any consolation.
My Rating: 5/10
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