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Honestly if you're thinking about watching this go watch "Anus Magillicutty" instead. At least that film had some redeeming qualities. This "film" is to cinema what Hitler was to the Jews. In future decades when people look back and saw that this movie came out and people actually went to see it they'll regard us the same way we regard cultures that believed stars were burning vents on giant chariot wheels pilot by the Gods.

This film had no jokes. Picture going to see a stand-up comedian who's act was saying "remember smurfs, remember snorks, remember superman" that's basically what you get here, except this has even more irreverent pop culture references than a Shrek movie. Ignore this garbage.

I saw this movie in theaters on its opening night because I thought the trailer made it look funny. When I sat down right before the previews started I thought about it and I had only seen the trailer for this movie twice. And no other marketing besides that; I now know why. The town I went to see this movie has a large African-American population so I thought it would be a treat and it would be a movie the audience would get behind and enjoy together. There were never more than six people in the theater at a time. Aside from my two friends and I a trio of black girls were there and left about 10 minutes into the movie, only to be replaced by a guy and his two kids, who I assume were his stepchildren that he hated because he had taken them to see this movie. To start off there were no jokes. The "jokes" were mostly Big Boi saying something, nothing special, like "My daddy used to golf." Then Faizon love(who I loved as Big Worm in Friday) would just repeat what he said in a higher voice and add the n-word. The editing made no sense and was choppy. Dialouge vital to the "plot" would be happening and in between the sentences there would be a cut of Faizon Love just dancing or something. To summarize buy this movie at the 3.99 Walmart bin if a friend you haven't seen in years invites you to his birthday party or something.

As a child of twenty, and not yet experiencing a mid life crisis, I can say that I still enjoyed this movie. Not only where the characters sympathetic, they each had vastly different personalities that mesh well together. Tim Allen, perhaps drawing from real life, plays an excellent man trying to rediscover himself through a midlife crisis, Travolta plays his I'm a baby comedy routine well, Macy is good as always, and Lawrence is just a little better than you expect him to be. The supporting cast was terrific and when it comes down to it, despite almost astonishingly poor reviews, the film made all kinds of money. Definitely worth seeing and one of the views comedies I would recommend, since most like "Reno 911!: The Movie" are awful.