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Not everyone is going to like this film. I really don't follow Jackass, so I had no expectations before watching this flick. It reminded me of summer camp in the late 1970s and early 1980s, before the wimps took over.

Comedies are tricky, it's hard to find any on IMDb that hit 8.0, I mean the classics: Animal House -7.5, Old School 7.1,Dumb and Dumber 7.3, The Hangover-7.7. Shaun of the Dead comes closes with 7.9. I'm not saying this movie is even close to being in those movies universe, but I actually had several belly laughs and it kept my attention. All the haters and comedy snobs can rail on, but this is a decent movie.

My grandma wouldn't have liked it, but I'm now a grandpa and I thought it interesting enough to take the time to review. So yes I might have jacked it up a point, due to other's priggish snobs, but for many it's just plain fun.

Surprisingly this flick got several gut laughs from me and quite a few chuckles. I wasn't so sure about this film and I told my wife we'd watch it for a while and could always turn it off. Well it go better as it went on. Lots of humor you had to listen hard to get it. I sure like most comedies that aren't "romantic comedies" this is not for everyone. It was fun just identifying all the actors who did cameos. I mean damn, Vanilla Ice as Mark Twain, Blake Sheldon doing Wyatt Earp and David Spade as Custer, I was wanting more screen time for those three. However, Steve Buscemi and a couple others were wasted even as cameos. Overall I liked it 6 times more that the movie is was a parody of, the Quentin Tarantino overrated, "Hateful Eight"

Okay so as a Will Ferrell fan I was a little disappointed. However, all those folks that talk about "walking out" and "worse movie ever", I say to you Bullcrap! I've told people who ask me about it, that if I had to do it all over again I'd wait for the dvd or streaming. It was not a very good movie. All that said, it was not horrible. I had a couple of good belly laughs and a couple of sincere chuckles. It moved quickly and was fairly interesting. The acting itself wasn't bad. Probably the writing and direction was. Maybe it was the political leanings that fired up the opposition? Anyway, be honest in your reviews, sure I could go with "below average" or "poor" but right off hand I could mention a dozen. Some of this is the problem with a comedy, especially a relatively mild one. It either hits or misses.