Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain

This movie was ok. It caught our attention with Conan, we were hoping for a little more of him but ok. The acting was so-so. It definitely had its funny moments and it was overall a pretty entertaining movie but there were a couple things I could not stop thinking about the whole time. The 3 main actors are the Wish version of the dudes from Workaholics. Also the plot is basically the movie Without A Paddle just rewritten and changed slightly. It obviously has some main differences but it has a similar vibe and same basic idea. Immature young adult men go on a treasure hunt based on a local urban myth. It is worth the watch though.

The first half of this movie made me laugh out loud. Repeatedly. The last half? More than a little disappointing. In other words, it was only half a good movie...but that is still more than a lot of movies manage to be. There were high highs and lows lows, but the highs were worth it. I laughed more than i groaned (mostly).

Also, my kids loved it. Yet more proof that teenagers always love their generation's SNL movies way more than all the others. This is their Spies Like Us. This is their Three Amigos. You get the idea. Lots of flaws, but lots to love too. These guys find a chemistry that's pretty unique even for this kind of comedy.

Friends Ben, John and Martin live fairly mundane, uneventful lives, working at a camping store owned by Ben's father, Farley. Then one day Martin determines that a treasure of enormous value may be found nearby, in Foggy Mountain State Park. The three set off to find the treasure.

A film that had the potential to be a laugh-a-minute comedy. The initial scenes have some great lines and the presence of Conan O'Brien as Farley strengthens the film's comedic credentials. However, it never fully gets going a comedy, spluttering along rather than being constantly funny.

The fact that the film seems more preoccupied in being an adventure movie would explain the inconsistent comedy. This wouldn't be so bad if the adventure plot was half-decent but it's not, being rather haphazard and unfocused.

In the end you have something that is half-baked and neither fish nor fowl. A pity, as it had so much potential.

I was so excited for this film but it felt... disappointing. The guys pulled their punches and you could kind of feel their humor trying to break through, but it was like it had been through the washing machine of lane Hollywood Apatow humor. Like the small bits that made me laugh didn't even match how much PDD makes me laugh from a simple SNL skit. The pacing was weird and it made me feel kind of sad for the guys that this was their film debut. It's hard to describe other than that it felt like it went off the rails but not in a good way like their SNL skits. It was more off the rails in a stupid way. When we got to the cult, I really was just ready for it to be over, and then Bowen Yang added nothing to it. It was sad.

It's not overwhelming. But I think it's well done in regards to a simple entertaining story. I never saw Conan O'Brien in a movie before and honestly, in my opinion he has great potential. And I'd love to see him again in movies. For some reason I just like him big time. It doesn't make you crack up laughing, but besides it just being a cute story about friendship, at the end of the movie there were a few times where it definitely made me giggle. Would I recommend it? Yes. Simply because I don't consider it a waste of time. I enjoyed watching it and I wasn't bored. Good enough for me. I understand for some it might not be enough entertaining, but I've watched quite a lot of movies including B-movies/indie movies because of positive reviews and was sooo disappointed. This is not one of them. It was okay and most important, I don't regret watching it, which is all that matters to me. And don't get me wrong, there are definitely B-movies and indies, which I enjoyed big time. It's just that if they happen to have a lot of good reviews and you find out they are really bad, it just sucks to have wasted time watching it. What I also liked about this movie is that they didn't promote stereotype women. Watch it and you'll know what I mean.