Having only seen a few of Rob Schneider's movies (mostly supporting roles), I'm not really familiar with his work outside the fact that his characters are ridiculously obnoxious and not at all realistic. In seeing this movie, it occurs to me that like his frequent co-star Adam Sandler, he takes the ridiculous side of life and makes it even more ridiculous. Ridiculously so. this is a type of film that I should be outrageously offended by, but the more offensive it got, the more I laughed at the ridiculousness of it all.
You know that this is going to be a comedy of bad taste that, as a timeshare salesman, he attempts to sell a condo to an old lady and gives her a very graphic view of the type of neighborhood it is and what it will become to her. Her reaction is completely off the mark, but it had me laughing hysterically, and from then on, the more ridiculous it became, the harder I found myself laughing.
Schneider is sentenced to 3 years in prison and given six months to tie up his affairs, during which time he aligns himself with none other than David Carradine who teaches him how to be tough and how to beat anybody in a fight, even the biggest and toughest of prison inmates. What makes this all the funnier is his obsession with not being raped in prison, going through all sorts of ridiculous training exercises and even putting a tattoo in a precarious place to toughen his reputation when he gets in.
This is gross-out comedy and in really bad taste, so you have to be really open to that sort of humor otherwise it's going to disgust you. Some of the situations go way too far, as they do in the Sandler comedies, so I found myself looking away in a few eew inspiring moments, but I found myself doing more laughing than eye rolling or eewing. Several amusing cameos or supporting performances by familiar actors (Marcia Wallace, Henry Gibson, Sally Kirkland) pad out the cast. So if you can stomach an over-long comedy that often stretches the line of really poor taste you might enjoy this. There are a few touching moments however, so those little bits of sweetness do show this in a different light.
You know that this is going to be a comedy of bad taste that, as a timeshare salesman, he attempts to sell a condo to an old lady and gives her a very graphic view of the type of neighborhood it is and what it will become to her. Her reaction is completely off the mark, but it had me laughing hysterically, and from then on, the more ridiculous it became, the harder I found myself laughing.
Schneider is sentenced to 3 years in prison and given six months to tie up his affairs, during which time he aligns himself with none other than David Carradine who teaches him how to be tough and how to beat anybody in a fight, even the biggest and toughest of prison inmates. What makes this all the funnier is his obsession with not being raped in prison, going through all sorts of ridiculous training exercises and even putting a tattoo in a precarious place to toughen his reputation when he gets in.
This is gross-out comedy and in really bad taste, so you have to be really open to that sort of humor otherwise it's going to disgust you. Some of the situations go way too far, as they do in the Sandler comedies, so I found myself looking away in a few eew inspiring moments, but I found myself doing more laughing than eye rolling or eewing. Several amusing cameos or supporting performances by familiar actors (Marcia Wallace, Henry Gibson, Sally Kirkland) pad out the cast. So if you can stomach an over-long comedy that often stretches the line of really poor taste you might enjoy this. There are a few touching moments however, so those little bits of sweetness do show this in a different light.