So, let me explain: I was in Atlanta, it was crazy hot, the Hangover was sold out. Those are the three conditions that led me to see a film I otherwise would never have bothered to watch in the theater. It's not that I thought Year One would suck, but I saw it more as a mildly entertaining, mindless throwaway films much like those old Canonball Run movies starring Burt Reynolds and Dom Delouise.
Movies like these are basically episodic comedies: a series of SNL-type sketches strung together with an incredibly flimsy and nearly ridiculous plots. In the Canonball Run films (or almost anything Burt Reynolds has done in the thirty years between Deliverance and Boogie Nights), the plot is really besides the point. The actual outcome of the story is secondary to what happens on the way to the end.
It's no mystery that Jack Black and Michael Cerra's respective characters will end up victorious in the end, that they will be redeemed and they will get the girls. If this comes as a surprise to anyone then ... well, hello to the planet Earth, you must be new here.
No, the reason you go see this film is that you want to see a few gags and have a few light chuckles while making sure that your brain falls into a deep state of relaxation. Like I said before, I normally wouldn't have bothered to watch this in a theater. As much as I like most of the cast of this film, this was so obviously a watch-at-home quality film. But sometimes it's just nice to sit in an air-conditioned theater especially if said theater serves food and beer. Heck, it was almost like being at home.
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