Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates 2016 7 out of 10
I wasn't expecting much from this movie when the trailer first came out, but still wanted to see it. So many recent comedy movies have let me down, but I actually found myself laughing at some of the stupidity in this comedy.
The film stars Adam Devine (Andy on 3 seasons of Modern Family) and Zac Efron (from some Ab factory that my wife approves of). They play two brothers that are liquor distributors that are all about the partying. Their little sister is getting married and their Dad (played by the always great Stephen Root --the boss from News Radio) lays down the law and tells these two hard partying idiots to get their shit together. So the two brothers must show up to their sister's Hawaiian with actual respectable dates to avoid ruining yet another family gathering.
The setup for the film is good. The two idiot brothers take to social media to find their dates (not a bright idea). The results are predictable. Watching them interview girls that answer their ad for a free trip to Hawaii was entertaining. At this point I realized I was going to enjoy this film more than I originally thought. Then Aubrey Plaza and Anna Kendrick show up posing as respectable girls --when in truth they are even more of a train wreck than the brothers.
The humor is crude and the language is very adult --but I still found the film fun. There are numerous humorous segments and a lot of decent laughs. This isn't an intelligent film.... The main characters basically have the intelligence level of movies like Stepbrothers or A Night at the Roxbury and Dumb and Dumber. I briefly took a look at the reviews on IMDB before writing about the movie and was shocked at how much pretty much 90% of the reviewer absolutely hated it. If you like dumb humor give it a shot if you don't like your main characters to be morons ---you may want to pass on it.
I'd give it a solid 7 out of 10.
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