So all I knew about this film going in was that Amy Poehler and Will Arnette were involved, which made me happy. Of course I had heard zero buzz about the film, which made me apprehensive. Oh the things tearing at my cerebelum.
So I jump in feet first and am splashed with piss water.
Imagine a 5 minute SNL sketch with Poehler, Rachel Dratch and we'll sub Kristin Wig for Parker Posey, as lame 30 something Lillith Fair era leftover rejects who have pizza parties and cats as best friends. Now extend that to a 90 movie. Yeah.
The premise has a bit of potential but is weighed down and stupefied by a tediously dumb and monotonous subplot.
The 3 lead women, Poehler, Dratch and Posey, are planning their annual road trip to a womens music festival when Posey, who works for a female Senator, is called upon to follow the Senators daughter to Spring Break and make sure she doesn't get into trouble.
Besides not being very funny, the film suffers from some fatal flaws. Firstly all the women are playing characters we've seen them play in just about everything they've ever done. Secondly they're all ostensibly the same character. Whats worse is that Amber Tamblyn, playing the Senators daughter, has 2 friends, and that trio also is basically playing the same character. So you've got 6 female leads running around playing dorky chicks who are such prototypical movie characters that I'm not sure they were written into the script or just copied and pasted in from other dreadful movies of the same genre.
So the older girls follow the younger girls to spring break and of course Tamblyn decides to go wild to impress the boy who broke up with her, meanwhile Poehler decides to go wild......well just because something interesting has to happen. Possey might as well have never been on screen for all the presence she has. Dratch is a fuckin cuntload of annoyance, doing her typical schtick.
The only real laughs in the movie come as a result of the sheer volume of attempts Poehler has at making them.
It's not just that the movie is bad, it's that it's so fucking boring. A spring break comedy with no real humor or sex appeal, that takes a lot of work to achieve. There is pretty much zero originality to the script, it almost feels like a ABC Family TV Movie.
Arnett has the funniest line in the film, one of 2 lines he has as he's in it for exactly 1 scene. Tamblyn, who is such a sexy little nymph, is so misused as the comedic dork pretending to have no idea how to be sexy that it's almost criminal. And Seth Myers is so annoying that I can't put into words the douche chills I got watching him do a dick twistingly unfunny schtick for what seemed like hours.
So it ended and the credits rolled and I found out it was written by Rachel Dratch. And it all made sense.
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