AboveDeepBuggy
Some things I liked some I did not.
Micah Lloyd
Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.
Stephanie
There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
marlinedeba
Movie was no entertaining and seemed to drag on. There is a scene showing an unattractive black man naked. It was too much - almost pornographic. Luckily I rented for $1
aech-02177
This movie is frankly disgusting. And not in a good way. I mean the kind of disgusting where you just feel dirty after watching a movie like this and you want to take a shower, and then shower again just to be safe. Hall Pass is everything I hate in studio comedies, cranked to 11.
Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis play two pals who are bored with their lives married to Jenna Fischer and Christina Applegate respectively. When the wives notice that their husbands are getting way too horny, they decide to give them a hall pass (where Wilson and Sudeikis get sleep with as many women as they want and fear no repercussions) for a week. So Wilson and Sudeikis get some other friends to paint the town red and get laid. The wives decide they want to do this too, and I assume you know what's next.
First of all, the premise is downright unpleasant and despicable, and the film's attempt at addressing America's attitude towards marriage and adultery is so half-hearted and misguided that I honestly don't know what they're trying to teach. The characters (including the wives and the random people our heroes encounter the whole movie) are too obnoxious and unlikable to care about. I know Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis can act, so why won't they pick movies that let them? Everyone else in the cast try their best with what they have, and it's not very much.
The comedy in this film consists of this: Scatological slapstick, dick jokes and random references to movies we could be watching instead of this one. Not necessarily in that order.
Movies like Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary are classics because the humor in each broke barriers and challenged people's taste. Sadly, the Farrelly Brothers' brand of humor is not funny, shocking or interesting anymore. After the umpteenth time, it gets tiresome. It's clear that the Farrelly Brothers are refusing to grow up even though their audience has.
Jeff Becker
I guess you have to be 35-50 and married to enjoy this movie, because I never laughed harder in my life. The scenes in the hot tub, night rider and the hotel bathroom were three of the funniest things I have ever seen. Owen Wilson's line - Red, can you switch places?. That line was hysterical. Every scene has funny but true comments. The new house open visit was fantastic, the ride home after was so funny too. I have been using the look back and let the girl walk through my line of vision for years. So many parts of the movie are spot on to real life. Although very crude at times, there is a great message about marriage in the end. This is my favorite comedy of all time.
view_and_review
The Farrelly brothers have some serious hits under their belt: Dumb and Dumber, There's Something About Mary, Shallow Hal and Stuck on You. They took somewhat of a writing break between Heartbreak Kid and this movie, Hall Pass. I think they got rusty.There was the typical Farrelly humor with strong and explicit sexual references but very little humor beyond that. I don't know if the movie was poorly written, poorly executed or just a bad idea altogether but I did not like it.The cast were A listers: Owen Wilson, Christina Applegate and the up and coming Jason Sudeikis, yet there was no synergy between them. Furthermore, I think Owen Wilson was outside of his element. I don't think Owen Wilson has much range as and actor. Some roles fit him and others don't; this role didn't fit him. I first saw Jason Sudeikis in Horrible Bosses and I was impressed. I don't think he did a bad job in this movie, but I stopped it during the Jason Sudeikis self-pleasuring scene. The movie was already teetering on mediocrity before that and that scene did it for me.The Farrelly brothers are superb writers and I'm sure they'll bounce back, but this was a swing and a miss. Dumb and Dumber To is coming out soon, I really hope they put their all into it to make it as classic as the first.
