4 stars****
It’s not very often that a comedy film actually has you laughing, laughing consistently throughout the film and has you laughing out loud. This was does.
This Universal Pictures comedy film directed by Nicholas Stoller was written expertly by Jason Segel. The film stars Segel, Kristen Bell, Russell Brand and Mila Kunis.
Yes, it is an adult film, or at least I hope it is. I know today’s young teenagers think they’re adults and often believe that as well, but I hope that they take time to grow up properly, like older children should and then see films like this after they’re at least sixteen.
I’m not sure how worldly wise the audience were that I saw this film with, but there was a considerable gasp when the lead actor’s privates were on show. Moments later they appeared again followed by similar gasps from behind me. Seconds later they’re here again and this time my new found gasping friends were obviously getting use to what they were seeing. Personally, I didn’t think it was necessary to show these privates three times in such short repetitions, but it made them laugh in the chairs behind me and hopefully they were laughing at the joke. I suppose it’s only fair that we see so many women naked in films, that it’s only reasonable that the guys get to take a turn. However, the film wouldn’t have been worse for cutting those unnecessary clips. We got the gag without the bits on show.
The jokes were quite adult and I expect those eleven year olds who snuck into the cinema somehow would have been wondering at some of them. They were often crude, about the subject that we most laugh at and were unswerving in their ability to bring the whole audience to full belly laughs, not just sniggers.
An excellent day at the office for all; I haven’t laughed so much in this manner since Airplane and that’s a longtime ago. So often the trailer has all the laughs in it and the rest of the 93 minutes is just waiting for those now unfunny moments.
One reason why this film scores so high is its ability to be watched again. I’m sure, like Airplane that you only get to see some of the jokes on the second or third viewing. I can’t wait.
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