When it comes to comedies, I like all sorts of movies. I tend to prefer comedies that contain wit, subtle humor, and generally comical situations instead of one-liners that aren't too over the top, sometimes stuff like Royal Tenenbaums, but also Grosse Point Blank type stuff.
I like classic comedies ("Animal House"), slapsticky stage-to-screen stuff ("Noises Off"), and even low brow comedies, such as Wet Hot American Summer, which was over the top, yet did a nice job satirizing the typical 80's comedy and it's absurdity.
But dear God, I have no room for the utter stupidity and lameness that is Orange County.
I like Jack Black, but let's face it--the guy has no middle ground. He's either in great movies and is great in them, or is in horrible movies and is horrible in them. But he didn't have much to work with in this one. His character was one of the most irritating ones I've seen on screen in a long time.
The premise was stupid to begin with--a very dumb 'intelligent' guy (how's that for an oxymoron) is convinced he needs to leave home to start his life anew and make something of himself. Can't say I blame him with all the idiots in his life, either.
The movie was way too absurd to be funny. For those of you who say that was the point, I like absurd comedies. I love Cannibal: The Musical and Wet Hot American Summer because while both went over the top in their goofiness, both movies were clever at times, and satirical or spoofy at others, and when they were mindless, they were so hilarious that you didn't care. And a lot of their jokes were SUBTLE...and when they weren't, they were still funny.
This movie satirizes or spoofs nothing well, isn't clever, and the absurd bits are so over the top and stupid that it ruins the joke. Some people need to know that subtlety can take humor farther in comedic situations than screaming and yelling, and having general chaos explode in every scene. There are limits to how over the top you can go, and movies like these insult the audiences. You can't even sit through this movie knowing it's mere entertainment and enjoy it.
Every joke seemed to rival one that you'd find on the current incarnation of Saturday Night Live (which is not saying much), and it's humor generally resulted in our lead character getting buried in a frustrating situation, and chaos ensuing, whether it be the grandpa banging on the door after not getting his pills, or Jack Black's "pee" being served and him crawling out in his underwear. All tired, cliched attempts at "humor" that fall flat. If this is all it takes to make people laugh, then good lord, standards have fallen.
Avoid this movie like the plague. I only went to see this movie to pass two hours until a new release came out at Virgin Megastore, but I still was p***ed after leaving the theatre that I had to sit through something THIS unfunny.
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