Perfect cast and a good story

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

I get what they were trying to do. A stoner film with randomness, drugs, gross humour and tits rolled together like a tight joint. This "film" fails in every category.The 'plot':A 35 year old man (going on 50) is a video game tester. He gets evicted as his room mate spends all their money on hookers. Apparently the protagonist was not able to find a flat to rent so he moves into his friends house who has a clear learning disability. He then ejaculates on his mother while jacking it to a doll then moves in with his grandmother and her friends. He then meets a pretty prop who he wants to have sex with. Everyone derides and ridicules one loser (who is also a 'genius prodigy' responsible for the rest having jobs), but the other losers are celebrated and are apparently cool dudes who normal professional women adore? Villain is defeated when the protagonists grandmother beats him in a video game clearly made using Unreal Engine that he apparent coded on an Xbox (not a computer, only has one copy as an XBox disc?). A chimpanzee fights an elephant. The EndFeaturing:-Jonah Hill sucking on a tit -Sexual predator seduces slightly retarded man-child who is young enough to be her grandson (not creepy unless its the other way around apparently) -Women portrayed as and called whores throughout the film -Unnecessary randomness -45 year olds playing 30 year olds acting like 15 year olds. -Desperate virgins -Idiotic writing -Awful acting -Unlikeable protagonist -Ridiculous caricatures and stereotypes -Wasted talent -Fart jokes just becauseand much, much more. I'm not sure if the multiple 10 star reviews are bought and paid for. Part of me hopes that they are...Avoid this film, my wife is still mad at me for putting it on.

This is a strange and interesting stoner comedy. The plot doesn't really have a clear conflict, it just kind of tells a story. A 35 year old video game tester (the best in his company) is evicted from his home when his roommate doesn't pay the rent because he would rather pay for Philippino hookers. He is forced to move in with his grandmother and her two crazy old roommates. He introduces the women to the wonders of cable television, weed, and video games, one of which he is developing himself. At work, he boasts about his, "crazy sexy roommates" as the reason he comes into work tired all the time. At his job, he is supposed to be playing a new game behind schedule due to many bugs in the system and reporting on them. A new girl is brought on to the project to make sure it releases by its proposed deadline. The game's creator (a weird, awkward man who thinks he is a robot) wants to date the girl, as well as the main character. A battle ensues, that can not be discussed without giving away the ending. I know, this plot is all over the place, but like I said, there is no conflict. Therefore the whole story just kind of...happens. This is a movie made by stoners (Adam Sandler's crazy group of friends) for stoners. It is definitely funny, and worth watching for the laughs, but it isn't exactly good. Plot holes in this movie are gigantic. The acting is questionable. The music is decent. The cinematography is variable depending on the scene. Altogether, this is a decent comedy, with good laughs and juvenile humor, and it is worth a watch.

As one might expect from film released by Adam Sandler's Happy Madison, written by and for stoners - this movie is probably going to blow your mind or at least keep you entertained if you are under the influence. The acting is all solid, but none of the parts are really demanding (we're looking at you Dante, played by Peter Dante who is noted as using legit and not prop weed). The story is a fairly typical light romantic comedy, about video game tester/pothead Alex (Allen Covert) and his new boss Samantha (Linda Cardellini). Through the trials and tribulations of releasing a new video game and copious amounts of smoking, and living with his grandmother, the movie focuses on humanizing the pothead. All in all you can't go wrong with this flick, unless you are anti-pot.

Adam Sandler stock company player Allen Covert got boosted to star status with this easygoing stoner comedy that Covert also produced and co-wrote (with Barry Wernick and co-star Nick Swardson). The amiable Covert plays Alex, a 35 year old video game tester who loses his apartment through no fault of his own. He briefly - very briefly - is able to stay with his co-worker & friend Jeff (Swardson), who refers to his parents as his "roommates", until an unforeseen incident involving Lara Croft, Tomb Raider, occurs. Soon he's obliged to accept the offer from his grandmother Lilly (Doris Roberts) to come stay with her and her friends, Grace (Shirley Jones) and Bea (Shirley Knight). He comes to enjoy the arrangement, despite a rocky start, and is immediately attracted to Samantha (Linda Cardellini), the hottie supervising the production of the game that he's currently testing. Covert does a fine job with the writing of this appropriately goof ball movie that includes enough wild and random - and raunchy, of course - insanity to make it pleasurable viewing. The bit with the martial artist chimp is particularly funny. The assorted off the wall characters include Peter Dante (another member of the Adam Sandler stock company) as stoner dude Dante, Joel David Moore as weirdo video game prodigy J.P., Kevin Nealon as Alex's New Age boss, and Jonah Hill as another of his co-workers. They're all good at what they do, but it's really the older generation that adds that something special to this thing, as veterans Roberts and Jones are very much up for anything in this outrageous movie; Roberts is endearing as always, but Jones is a revelation as an oversexed show business groupie whose liaisons included ones with Charlie Chaplin and Abbott & Costello. You'll never look at Shirley Partridge quite the same way again! Predictably enough, there are cameo roles for Sandler's old cohorts David Spade and Rob Schneider. Moore's "robotic" shtick does wear a little thin, but that's hardly a major quibble. A production of Sandler's Happy Madison company, this does take a bit of time to kick into gear but once it does it remains an acceptable diversion for its duration. Seven out of 10.