Hall Pass (2011)

Directors: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly Writers: Pete Jones, Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly, Kevin Barnett

Cast: Owen Wilson, Jason Sudekis, Jenna Fischer, Christina Applegate, Nicky Whealon

Plot: Two sex crazed middle-aged men upset their wives to the point that they give them a week off marriage, with the goal being to sleep with as many women as possible.

If you were to make a guess on how this movie would turn out based on the first part of the movie, you'd be expecting a roller coaster of amazing. Something like a poor man's Hangover. Unfortunately, very very bad men were allowed to rape this movie's potential. And I mean a forceful violation of what could have been a very good movie. When look at her brain no work.

This is how my HALL PASS would have gone. Same beginning, since it really was quite strong, but then when they earn their passes, they actually nail some women. And I can understand the movie being moral, having the men never actually achieve penetration due to the true love of their wives.. but at least make it interesting! So - carrying on with the movie I should have watched - they get the passes and they strike out horribly. The next day though they get a lucky break with some gorgeous women, but something out of the blue interrupts what could have been. Another conflict like slander or something distracts them for a while (oh, lots of T & A throughout all this) before they get back to some incredibly hot women and they stop realizing they love their wives.

That was not the movie I saw. Instead it went something like this. Awesome beginning, hall passes, nothing, nothing, nothing, black dick, nothing, nothing, lame-ish ending. Thanks to Nicky Whealon being illegally hot throughout the movie, I don't totally regret the time I'll never get back.

The acting was semi-believable. Owen Wilson does his best straight laced impression, but it is not consistent as sometimes he's slightly cool and other times he is moronic for no reason. Sudekis does his best, and he tries hard, but his character doesn't give him enough to work with. The wives just never click, and the strained relationship with their friend who gives them the hall pass idea is about as believable as sport stars playing with effort.

This is a sad movie. Something that could have been good, but was terribly followed through. Somebody should have had the guts to tell the Farrelly brothers being lame is not an entertaining "break from marriage" concept.