I originally thought it would be horrible, based on the trailer that I had seen, but I was pleasantly surprised! It's one of the funniest R-rated movies I've ever had the pleasure of seeing.
1. Honestly, I'm usually able to count how many times I laugh out loud in a movie (2 times for 22 Jump Street, for example), but I seriously lost track in this movie. There's a jump scene at the beginning of this movie that unexpectedly sets the tone for the movie by stealing some laughs from the audience, and then the entire first half of the movie is just joke after joke, which all landed extremely well with myself and the audience that I saw it with. As soon as the roar of laughter in the theater would end, another joke would elicit an equal and oftentimes greater response.
2. However, the dog scene was crude and uncalled for. If I could do a director's cut of this film, the strippers and dog licking genetalia would be cut out completely, as would a scene where they drive a van off a ramp through the air in a far-fetched chase scene. Prior to those scenes, the comedy is masterfully written and executed, and it's a shame the writers resorted to shock value to try and get a cheap laugh from the audience.
3. The last line involves Hurley from LOST. That's all I'm gonna say.
4. I'm docking a star for the unnecessary crassness of the dog scene and the van chase, along with some mediocre acting from Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting (who I enjoyed in the Big Bang Theory). Aside from those complaints, this movie made me laugh harder than any R-rated comedy ever has before, and subverted my expectations in the best of ways. It's a film I believe I'll still enjoy 10 years from now, and I'm giving it a solid 9/10.
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