I've tried to watch this film twice. Months ago I rented it, and my wife and I gave up 30 mins in, realizing we hadn't even sniggered once at the film (tho we did at the fake trailers that precede the film). Seeing that the film is on some 'best of 2008' lists, I gave it another shot. Still no cigar! I could find nothing to laugh at in this film. I'm not offended by the race and handicap portrayals that offend others, but I simply did not find it remotely amusing. Nothing. Not once did I laugh.

I love comedy of all sorts (tho perhaps have a bias to Brit comedies), and simply cannot understand what people are finding funny in this. I suspect many of the movie reviewers appreciate it more because they're 'in the business'... I find Office Space funny for that same reason. But for everyone else, what are you laughing at here? This is no classic comedy. It's far beyond a lot of other dismal comedies that hit the market (eg those appalling 'spoof' movies), but there's not much going for it. All of the characters were one-joke ponies. The visual humour was stretched. Much of it was simply pointless.

Maybe I'm getting old...