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hyped garbage

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Everything else about this movie is lovely. It is easily one of the funniest things I have ever seen, and everything about it other than Biggs, is awesome. Ermey, Black, Peet, and Hahn overact every single thing they do, to hilarious effect, and the plot line is stupid enough to be a farce of itself, which just sets up the actors for all of the stupidity even better. 10/10 despite Biggs' awful crap, as the rest make up for it in droves.

I just streamed this and it seemed a little slow and stupid with the Neil Diamond tribute band in the beginning but then it gets really funny after the kidnapping. I'm not a particularly big fan of Jason Biggs but I stuck with it because generally everything Jack Black is in is gold but here I would say Amanda Peet puts on the command performance. I previously have not been familiar with her but here she is just ravishing and dominating at the same time. Let's just say she can really handle herself! The funniest dialog is the impromptu psychoanalyzing but I can't say too much about that without giving away plot points.

Okay, the summary line is a bit much. But this movie combines so many strange odd elements it's hard to generalize in a summary.Probably everyone knows the plot: Three guys who are on the lower end of the food chain spend their time being sloths and playing in a Neil Diamond cover band. In and of itself, that's hilarious.Being a Neil Diamond fan, I appreciate the assertion, seemingly incontestable, that Neil Diamond is one of America's greatest song writers.The basic plot: one of the losers in the band falls in love with a gorgeous woman (nastily, and well, played by Amanda Peet) who promptly puts him under his thumb.And our other losers are aghast, and take action to respond to the situation, in a remarkably stupid fashion. But what do we expect? There are some gross out scenes, a lot of them actually. But if you can forgive those, there are some really funny, weird scenes. Adding in a cameo (ultra spoiler here) by Neil himself at the end, wonderful. Also and appearance by Varney, a Vietnam era drill instructor in such movies as Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket, as a very strange football coach, there are some plot diversions that one can at least go "huh" at.It's still juvenile, and very stupid usually, but there's enough fun, amidst the gross out, that at the right moment, it might be worth it.

Sometimes a silly movie is really funny. This is one of those.Jack Black is perfect as J.D., a well-meaning but moronic slob. Steve Zahn is great as his slightly brighter buddy, Wayne. Darren Silverman (Jason Biggs), the title character and the third member of the trio of losers who've had a bond and a band (Neil Diamond tribute band) since grade school.Although the title character, and the man who the plot spins about, Silverman is seldom in the thick of the fun. That is provided by the antics of his two buddies in trying to save him from Judith (Amanda Peet), a successful educated women who finds Silverman convenient to have around after feigning interest in him to fend off a magician clumsily trying to hit on her. Their relationship is that of female domination of a willingly submissive male, although overt use of that terminology would ruin the movie. The domination includes Judith denying Darren sexual favors but demanding it from him.Darren's true "one and only" love is Sandy (Amanda Detmer), who left town with her family while in grade school, but moves back shortly after Darren gets besotted by Judith. Sandy is a novitiate who is to take her vows in a week.