It is not even fun enough junk to enjoy over some herbal materials, nor is it worthy of a lazy afternoon watch over a streaming service – it is just a big bowl of nothingness that never commits to anything it presents – themes of friendship, horrible bosses, business ethics, gross-out gags or stoner comedy. Questions like who is this movie for, why was it made, why are you stuck in this theater watching it, where is the nearest exit, and what time does this boring drivel get over will often pop up as the film gets more and more sloppy as it goes along.

While Haddish and Byrne are just about okay, Hayek has never been this forgettable, despite appearing in an outsize glamorous awful superior avatar, but carrying none of the amusing nastiness of Meryl Streep from The Devil Wears Prada. It never once works, not even in the moments when two characters talk about having sex dreams about Barack Obama.Ī couple of fleeting moments of chuckles arise from Jennifer Coolidge, whom you may recognise as Stiffler’s mom from the American Pie movies, but she repeats the over-sexed trait shtick, to obviously much lesser results. One can smell the desperation wafting in the air as the lead trio find themselves in increasingly puerile situations, and the actors’ real life classy personas are juxtaposed to the stupidity of their characters.

The biggest problem with the movie is it is just not funny on any level, but frantically tries to be.

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