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« Reply #15 on: August 10, 2004, 02:23:10 AM » |
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Just saw it. I gotta say I wasn't too impressed. I had heard for quite a while that this movie was supposed to be pretty funny, but then I saw it the other day and I was pretty disappointed. The movie was full of ideas that should have been funny but weren't. A scene would start, and you'd think "Hey, this is going to be really funny" and then the scene would just end. It was like they didn't have enough confidence in themselves to let the scenes really develop into something that was funny. Example: Neil Patrick Harris as a horny, ecstasy-addicted a***ole who snorts cocaine off the ass of a stripper. Sounds like it should be hilarious, but doesn't really result in many laughs.
The thing is, I generally like these dumb "one wacky adventure after another" kind of movies. So I really wanted this movie to be good. There's one scene that in the hands of more talented filmmakers could have been really funny. SPOILERS AHEAD: Kumar is trying to break his friend Harold out of jail and he spots, lying on a policeman's desk, a giant bag of pot that they confiscated from a drug dealer earlier. Suddenly, he has a dream montage in his mind of himself running through a field towards the bag of pot, walking along the beach with it holding hands, etc. and then it cuts to him actually getting married to the bag of pot, having sex with it on their wedding night, eventually leading to him having an argument with the bag of pot while paying bills and slapping it, abusive-wife style, then making up with it afterwards: "I LOVE YOU" etc.
Now, this is a really funny idea, but I don't know, something about the way it's presented on screen makes it not come across very well. There are several other scenes like this where they waste potentially funny jokes. And then there are other scenes, like the "Battles**ts" scene, where I can't even understand why they thought it would be funny.
And the p**s scene... I can see how that COULD have been funny. A guy tries to take a p**s, but is thwarted by another guy who is just too uncomfortably close to him. A classic situation. But it just happens all of a sudden, and then it's over. No explanation as to WHY Jamie Kennedy's character is in the middle of a field at night at the exact time Kumar is, and his character is never seen or heard from again. If they had made it a running gag (every time Kumar stops somewhere to pee, THAT GUY is there again); that would have been, if not funny, at least clever. As it is now, it's just confusing. I'm all for weird comedy, but that doesn't fit any classification of a "joke" in any traditional sense.
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