If Hollywood was run like the federal government, then I would be lobbying to completely defund the Department Of Comedy because clearly they are spending entirely too much money and providing very little laughs. It’s pretty obvious that there is a group in the Department of Comedy (aka Hollywood) that believes they know what is best for us and they are going to give us Awkward Improv, Toilet Humor, and Drug Use when all we really want is unregulated funny. Whenever a movie is not screened for critics prior to its release day, it is usually because they know the film stinks and they don’t want it to affect the box office. However, that didn’t stop New Line Cinema from putting $40 million dollars behind the comedic dud known as The House.
I can’t oversell this enough, Hollywood idea of funny is simply broken. We have never the same style of comedy over and over and the novelty has been expired for at least a decade. Maybe it’s time someone mandated drug testing in the Department of Comedy because perhaps the Marijuana and Cocaine
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Because those 3 minutes are so painfully unfunny, they justify walking right back out of the theater and going home. But this should be no surprise given the fact this film is directed by Andrew Jay Cohen, a screenwriter who wrote Neighbors and Neighbors 2 because he is used to working on terrible comedies with terrible comedians. It’s like comedies have no scripts anymore, directors just give marginally funny actors funny reign to just sit there and talk and hope something hilarious comes out of their mouths. Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler are only good for a few chuckles in this film, Jason Mantzoukas is actually funny and the film would be hot garbage without him, even a cameo by Jeremy Renner feels like a complete waste of time and money and what more could you expect from Government run comedy