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He’s alone, she’s alone, they meet, they decide to marry, then he meets
the love of his life... on his honeymoon. And she, well, she turns out
to be a whack job with a LOT of secrets. That’s the basic premise for the
latest Farrelly brothers’ film.
Eddie (Ben Stiller) does have a best friend Mac (Rob Corddry) and his father Doc (Jerry Stiller), but they spend all their time pushing Eddie to get out there and get a girlfriend (or at least have a one-night stand). Eddie meets the lovely Lila (Malin Akerman) and they’re quickly an item (although you never buy it for a second because there’s not one kiss between them that has an ounce of chemistry). To keep her from leaving, Eddie pops the question and before they barely get a chance to get to know each other, they’re headed to Mexico for a 3-week road trip/honeymoon.
They don’t even get across the border before Eddie is wondering what kind of crazy woman he married. He gets a break when Lila is sidelined with a terrible sunburn – that’s when Eddie meets Miranda (Michelle Monaghan). She’s down in Cabo for a family vacation and she’s a breath of fresh air. Eddie is determined to be with her, but what’s going to happen when she finds out he’s already taken? The bottom line is that Eddie doesn’t deserve Miranda (and the audience doesn’t deserve any of this).
This movie goes on and on and as it does, the level of humor sinks lower and lower. It’s hard to say what’s the most disgusting bit (there are so many to choose from): a running gag about a deviated septum (with all kinds of nasty stuff running from Lila’s nose), her wild sexual appetite (that might frighten anyone outside the porn industry), and the topper is the jellyfish sequence (now that’s an image that’s going to be hard to erase).
The real heartbreaker is that there could have been an amusing story about
Miranda and her zany family and even Mac’s sorry situation – you can see
glimpses of what might have been a cute, funny movie, but it’s absolutely
spoiled by the crap that festers around the light-hearted moments. The
Farrelly brothers can’t seem to settle for fun when they could also throw
down some raunchy to the extreme. The biggest surprise is Jerry Stiller
– you can usually count on him to be funny, but he’s reduced to a throw-away
part as a dirty old man with a one-track mind and not a single line of
dialog that’s clever.
We’ll admit that there were quite a few people in the audience who laughed during this movie, even at the most obnoxious parts. All we can say is that when we say we watch the crap so you don’t have to – most of you will be grateful for the warning. However, you get to decide if you’re the kind of person who would find this brand of comedy entertaining. If you want to pay to see Jerry Stiller in a hot tub with an old, large-breasted stripper or you’ve been waiting for a movie that includes donkey sex - you’re in luck. As for this Movie Chick, there’s not enough tequila in Cabo to make me sit through this again.
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