Hall Pass

I don't know how this film got so many bad reviews, must be because of the lack of humour of some people. The first time you watch this film you should have various moments of laughter, however this is a film that you can only find funny the first time around.

The premise was stupid, the movie was not very believable and it wasn't particularly funny. At least the acting was pretty good and the movie was kind of entertaining. Overall, it's a very average movie.

Owen Wilson has been a pretty solid guy in comedy movies for more than a decade but now it finally looks like he is starting to go downhill. Jason Sudeikis is also a guy who pretty much funny in everything, but these guys were both average here. Hall Pass is a movie that is for middle aged males, it may not be considered funny if you are a young unwed male like myself. I did have a few laughs scattered all over the movie but this movie is not comparable to movies the stars have already been in. This movie is really hit or miss.

I think this movie has an immature premise; one that goes too thin and gets you bored easily. Throughout watching this movie, I don't remember getting any laughs at all, only playing it safe and going in circles just to get it to the feature length runtime. Since it went on for too long, I was praying that there would be a great joke in there, but it ended up disappointing me. Both Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis are both very good comedians with great potential for chemistry, but I felt like they're wasted in a thinly written script and had to embarrass themselves in front of the women who I feel are too overpowered and in charge of everything (no offense to anyone though.) I don't feel like the right person to watch it anyway.

Thanks to this film, the term, "Hall Pass", became part of the modern urban vernacular, and while the term was a big success, the movie was not. For some reason, Hollywood film makers continue to think that Owen Wilson is funny, and maybe he is, but personally, I don't see it. I usually just wind up feeling sorry for whatever loser character he's portraying. In this film, Wilson and Jason Sudeikis play two guys who have been married awhile, and are starting to get bored. After seeing mutual friends of theirs divorce, the couples worry that they're headed down the same path. Thanks to some friendly advice from Joy Behar, the wives decide that the men should get a week off from marriage to do what they want, and the rest of the film, follows their antics in trying to pick up women after being out of the game for such a long time. The premise of the film isn't terrible and usually, Jason Sudeikis is pretty funny, but Hall Pass falls flat on it's face. This is supposed to be a comedy, so why does it take nearly an hour for the story to get to the point? By the time the guys are shopping for dates, I was bored and pretty much done with this film. In the second hour, the film does get a little better, but not nearly enough. Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis are just two very different types of comedic actors and their styles didn't mesh well at all. If anything their antics together were more stupid than funny, and if there's one thing I can't stand when it comes to comedy, it's stupidity that leads nowhere. It was a good idea, but the writing wasn't very good, the actors didn't mesh, and the situations just weren't that extreme or funny. Hall Pass is just another forgettable film that fails to live up to expectations.