Lia Tonicher This movie is so good..it makes us think about the meaning of life. Owen Wilson is phenomenal. He makes me think a bit about Woody Allen. But Wilson is a bit like him, anyway. He deambulates about himself, his friend and around life, brilliantly. There are, indeed, some reminiscences of Woddy Allen's more introspective work, where he explored complicated people, relationships and inner psychology, spiced with sarcastic comedy. It's not a comedy neither is a drama. I'd call it, a realistic comedy, because our lives are totally like this. From an exterior or disconnected point of view, they are hilarious. But this movie is more accessible and contemporary. Not presumptuous. Just simple.

Arch Stanton Stumbled across this title on Netflix. Saw who was in it, saw it was relatively recent, so I gave it a watch. Starts out making you think its gonna be a Pineapple Express kind of vehicle. Ends up being more like a mish-mash of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and every other Rom-Com you've ever had the misfortune to watch. Yes, its that convoluted. I will admit I did chuckle a few time, but too few to warrant a higher rating. I will give the director credit for throwing the audience a few bones and having some nice gratuitous booty and booby shots of some really good looking babes. That gets a couple of extra points from me. As far as the other actors go - Zack Gandalfgondorwhatever plays his usual bizarre self. Owen Wilson puts his crooked, smashed schnozz to work as well, Amy Poehler does her usual bit. I think the director and writer really didn't know where they wanted to go with this. Funny? Serious? Rom-Com? Turned out to be just a passing of 2 hours. But, like I said, some nice skin shots really saved it for me. But maybe I was just feeling overly horny to begin with. Anyhoo...

londahayden I was expecting this to be funnier than what was delivered. Granted, other folks may have found it very comical, but I'm a harder sell. I'm a big fan of all the leading cast members and although they each did a good job acting, the story itself fell a little short in my humble opinion. I feel the profanity could have been omitted in most cases and probably should have been. This would have made the show more family friendly and could have broadened the audience base. Most of the time the omission of profanity makes things even funnier. The overall innocence of circumstances present a more comical scenario for the audience to enjoy. I hope the film makers keep this in mind for future projects. After about the first 30 or so minutes, I started to lose interest because again, the story simply was too predictable and fell short. A shame since the A-list actors involved deserved a better script. Maybe the writing should be left up to them next time. Just a thought.

SnoopyStyle Steve Dallas (Owen Wilson) is a local TV weather reporter. He smokes weed with his slacker friend Ben Baker (Zach Galifianakis) who lives in a rundown trailer and has a philosophy of balance with nature. Ben's dad dies and Steve drives him home. Terri Coulter (Amy Poehler) is Ben's bossy sister. Angela (Laura Ramsey) is their hippie stepmother. Terri is given $350k and the rest of the property totaling some $2.5 million to Ben. It puts Ben into a tailspin until he comes up with an idea. Then Terri challenges the Will.The material keeps trying and certainly Zach gives it his all. This is simply not funny. Writer/director Matthew Weiner is famous for some terrific TV work. Most of this falls flat. It's hard to put a finger on a single cause of this. The jokes are not sharp enough. The directions aren't there. There is something off about the chemistry between Owen, Zach and Angela. Owen is playing a ladies man but the movie starts with him being a horrible date. These weed smoking characters are not nearly funny enough. The four main characters just make me scratch my head. Amy Poehler is almost funny a couple of time. Laura Ramsey struggles to stay in the picture with her costars. Owen has a great moment about his friendship and then the movie turns it on his head. Just when this movie seems to climb out of a hole, it digs an even deeper one. With the talents in the picture, this should be so much funnier.