I went to this film with the hope that it would be a fun summer movie, and I left with a bad taste in my mouth. My husband wanted to leave halfway through, and I almost agreed, but we stayed, hoping it would improve as it reached the end of its story arc. Alas, there was very little to like about this film. The characters are pretty much one-dimensional, and the ending was very predictable. Gerard Butler summed it all up when asked why he was in love with Katherine Heigl's character: "Beats the s*** out of me." I feel the same about why anyone would waste their money or their time on this sad piece of juvenile humor- and profanity-laced fluff.
I got talked into seeing this pathetic excuse for a film and almost got up and left about 15 minutes into it. If I hadn't been with a friend who wanted to see it I would have gotten a refund and gone home. This movie's target audience consists of 18-year-old male HS dropouts who think that getting wasted at their trailer park every weekend and scoring a BJ in an elevator is top-notch entertainment. PLEASE spare the rest of us. Never again.
To say that I was disappointed in this film is like saying that a tornado is a gentle breeze. While I do think that the acting was fine, and the directing was good, the movie took forever to reach any kind of coherent point, and the level of gratuitous violence along the way was totally over the top. I took my family to see this, and my son and his girlfriend got up after an hour and a half and left. The rest of us stayed, hoping that things would improve. They finally did, but it was too little, too late.