Crude, annoying and not remotely humorous, this film assaults the senses in its attempt to offend everyone in the audience. If there was even a spark of humanity inside it we might enjoy the romp, but it's bereft of a single authentic moment or character, or even an astute observation of male society. And the acting isn't good enough to make us believe the characters anyway (Peet alone emerges with any dignity, and only just). The script is absolutely terrible, trying far too hard to be tasteless and goofy, but emerging as just pathetic. It doesn't even have the courage of its convictions--the nasty moral (that women are scammers too) is undercut with a whiff of emotion, eliminating even any blackly comic possibilities (a la The Company of Men). It's an unmitigated disaster on every front, painful to sit through, abysmally unfunny, dull and stupid. Have I forgotten anything?

adult themes and situations, strong language, vulgarity

10.Jul.01

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