At first I wasn't particularly interested in seeing this movie. I looked up its reviews, though, and that's what got me interested. No, not the couple of glowing reviews, but the bad reviews. They seemed over the top nasty. A couple were extremely personal and aimed at the writer/star in almost a cyberstalking way. It all seemed very strange. I figured I could spare a few minutes to see whether it would be worth watching the whole thing. And, sure, this is not some cinematic masterpiece, but, dude, it's in the gross out / road trip / raunchy comedy genres. None of them are Oscar-bait films. And this is superior to many of them. The main character is kind of a selfish prick, but then often that's who's trying to do the overly huge romantic gestures that are doomed to failure. If you've been dating someone for a couple months and they already have been rebuffing physical intimacy for weeks, maybe you shouldn't take over someone else's party to ask her to marry you in front of everyone, dude. There's also his best friend (who happens to be improbably sweet woman who is crazy in love with the guy), the wild friend who gets more than his share of bodily fluids dumped on him, and his gay uncle who provides the transportation needed for the road trip to foolishly again ask the woman to marry him -- by interrupting her wedding, no less. Oh, and there's also a woman who is that other woman's best friend / maid of honor but sets things in motion by telling the clueless guy about the wedding, and she somehow joins the trip with the main characters instead of whatever plans she must have had beforehand to get there. I mean, it's unbelievable, but I won't complain because she's the most charismatic character of the bunch. She even somehow displaces all other women for a while so it's just her and the lead guy for a part of the movie. Who is he going to pick, the one who got away, her breasty bestie or the platonic solid? And who decided that it's up to this putz to choose, anyway? I wouldn't blame the women if they ran off with each other and formed a lesbian punk rock band. And they should take the raccoon. That thing was laugh out loud absurdly hilarious.
