SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Cedric_Catsuits Jason Biggs definitely runs hot and cold in movie performances, and this one is freezing. Isla Fisher tries her best to lower the standard even further, but in truth neither of them has to work hard to drag this pile of dog poo into the gutter.It's lazy, contrived and immature in the extreme. I dread to think how a bunch of adolescent morons managed to get this script accepted - presumably by another bunch of adolescent morons who stumbled across a pile of money and a drunk movie studio boss.Tasteless and lame don't even begin to describe the level of humour. This is dumbed-down film making which makes me despair for the future, not just of the film industry, but for the human race.

siderite Run away from this thing. It just oscillates wildly between boredom and embarrassment, dancing on a hard to believe plot. The comedy is done (or it is attempted) only through gross exaggerations. The boyfriend is totally lame, the pretender turns out to be gay, the girlfriend dies of heart attack when she is proposed to, the father is a convict, the mother a horrible witch, etc. And Jason Biggs just navigates these troubled waters with a silly new yorkish look on his face, making passive sarcastic remarks like "oh, look, I am normal, everybody else is just ridiculous and funny!".The only good thing about this movie was cute Isla Fisher, although she too screamed a bit too much. Bottom line: avoid at all costs. I will forget it in a few minutes, tired and already missing my wasted two hours of precious time.

laymonite-2 I have to say the acting was top notch, including Jason Biggs (American Pie)- all the younger actors did a really good job. There were also a lot of 'little' funny aside bits - kind of like watching an episode of The Simpsons.The big problem was there wasn't really any plot or purpose to the film whatsoever, while it played as a 'message film' - the whole thing was an ill conceived idea made watchable by good actors and incidental injections from the writers. The parts with the parents were amusing at first, but became annoying when they were all that was left to finish the film - and the plot had nowhere to go except to them in the last half.Sort of a dud with some wasted talent overall!

trustgodprov356 Isla Fisher was great in this, but the movie itself, was simply not very good. What had the potential to be a nice romantic comedy storyline gets ruined with some really bizarre character developments. Though the movie had moments that were very funny, for the most part it was full of "humor" that was way too stupid to be funny. (juvenile humor -- some of it only "funny" because of the gross-out factor -- and if you're over 15 that kind of stuff isn't funny anymore.) It was hard to sit through to the end. It's worth watching if you're a fan of Fisher but otherwise, this one you can skip and you won't be missing much.