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No, perhaps not the funniest film ever but certainly the best of the year with nary a filthy (lots of naughty stuff, though), really cruel, or crass moment played for laughs.
Lovers of Brit film and humor: this is a must!
The oldest brother seems to have great star potential, also.
the one thing that kept it from being great, IMO, was that the character who spent the movie high on that acid concoction didn't REALLY act like someone who'd ingested such substances. My guess is he never has and therfore couldn't embody it and that took me out of it/made it less funny occasionaly.
For comparison's sake check out the fully embodied mushroom scene in Knocked Up.
"You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
Also the screenwriter and producers, plus all major cast members.
My favorite short excerpt is the "How did you meet my dad?"
Be warned the trailer and the clip above contain key spoilers.
Catch this one while it's in theaters - it's more fun wih a crowd - but I must caution you about eating and drinking during the movie...you might spit food onto your neighbors!
...on at several occassions. I haven't laughed this hard in a move theater in a long time.
Very funny stuff, with a great ensemble cast. The Brits are sooooo good ont the timing on comic farce. Things just keep piling up - I bet they had a good time making this one. DAAF is one of Frank Oz's better efforts (remember Dirty Rotten Scoundrels?). Superbad was funny but I have a limited tolerance for the sexual predicaments of teenage boys. This is the only comedy I've seen in a long time that I would go back to see again.
I especially liked Matthew Macfadyen as the long-suffering "responsible" brother - is this the older brother character you're talking about??? If so he's already a star in Britain for his lead role on Spooks (MI-5 on US TV), stage work plus BBC TV like The Way We Live Now and Perfect Strangers. He's best known on this side of the pond for playing Mr. Darcy in 2005's Price & Prejudice. He looks completely diferent in all these things so most here may not recognize him.
I've loved Macfadyen's acting for a long time - if you ever get a chance to see a terrific NZ movie called In My Father's Den you'll catch his best screen performance. He's obviously very good at comedy - I'd like to see him in more. I love his scene with Dinklage where he discovers his father's...erm...secret. Right now Mafadyen's filming Ron Howard's adaptation of the Tony award winning play Frost/Nixon with Frank Langella, Kevin Bacon and Michael Sheen (he was Tony Blair in The Queen). BTW, his wife in the fil (Keeley hawes) is his wife in RL.
Alan Tudyk made the most of his character too - he could have easily gone over the top.
Highly redommended.
...I found it only mildly amusing.
Perhaps it was the British humor, but I liked "Waking Ned Devine" much more some years ago.
The two funniest films I've seen this year are "Knocked Up" and "Superbad".
This one isn't in the same league.
laughed a hell of a lot.
measured in laughs, this was easily the funniest movie I've seen this year, including Superbad and Knocked Up (liked them both). The audience was roaring. I recommended this to a coworker and his report was the same. Silly as it is, it works for me, and apparently for audiences. This has been at the art theaters now for quite a few weeks. I think it's turning into a word of mouth hit.
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