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What works, wonderfully, are the falls, the punch-outs (his brawls with Stepdad are brutal throw-downs) and waiting for that next accident to happen.
If you're looking for plausibility, this is not your movie. If you're looking for laughs, this is not your movie. If you like seeing delusional overgrown adolescents fall down a lot, then this one's for you.
We know from the Lazy Sunday bits Samberg's a funny guy, but he doesn't have enough to work with here.
Started to go bad about the time someone in casting said, "You know what? I'll bet America is just about ready for the comedy stylings of Sissy Spacek."
Samberg can't carry this, though director Akiva Schaffer supplies some hilarious, Jackass-style wipeouts.
Imagine a Stand by Me on wheels, with dialogue spoken by 20-something actors instead of 12-year-olds, and you have the essence of the script.
A perennial problem with comedy from regular collaborators is that the results feel too much like friends' in-jokes.
Awesomely dumb slapstick is for teens and adults only.
The results are barely worth an illegal download.
Oh, Napoleon Dynamite! What have you wrought? [Blu-ray]
...only a heart transplant can save the step-dad. What the movie needed was a script transplant. (Blu-ray Edition)
...comedy is a subjective thing, and what makes one person laugh may simply bore someone else. Hod Rod bored me.
Hot Rod emerges as a daffy, dorky summer surprise, a silly comedy of non sequiturs that feels like a cockeyed collaboration between Will Ferrell and Mel Brooks.
...comes off as precisely the sort of silly and nonsensical piece of work that one might've expected...
Cell phones, the Internet, '80s fashion and '70s style are all thrown together for a winning combination.
It's a simple comedy that tries to be nothing but. At times it is simple hilarity, other times it's a little too "Napoleon Dynamite" for its own good.
The disc's extras begin with a predictably goofy chat-filled commentary by the three brains behind this movie: director Akiva Schaffer and stars Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone.
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