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I finally saw this after months of hearing people quote it, and being annoyed by people quoting it. So, I'll admit I went in with a pre-existing negative bias towards the movie, but I don't think that's the only reason that I really didn't like the movie.
I feel like the movie wasn't at all celebrating its main characters, it was more basically presenting them to you to laugh at. They're not making jokes, they are the joke, and I found it pretty tiresome after a while, to watch a movie that seemed to exist just so you could revel in how dumb these people are, and how superior you are in comparison.
I find it odd that so many people really embraced the movie, and I'm not sure what that says about society as a whole. I guess this is just a variation on the Adam Sandler type character who exists to get in bad situations that you can laugh at, with a healthy dose of Urkel thrown in. A lot of that feeling comes from the production design and costumes, which were clearly designed to be the ugliest things possible, and they succeeded. It's a movie that I found very off putting looking at. And then there's the whole cliched/racist ending for Kip.
What I did like was the ambiguity of the ending. Maybe this is a movie you have to "discover," but I don't think it's something I would have liked regardless of when I came across it. |
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