Reviews

I realize in the US this is a PG-13 movie, but I live in Manitoba, Canada where it is rated PG, because in Canada we enjoy corrupting 7-year-olds. This movie has physical comedy that maybe your average 7-13 year old (13 at the OLDEST) would find hilarious, it deals with adolescence in a fairly wholesome way that maybe Young Republicans or Young Tories would find compelling, and it is also the billionth Hollywood movie to deal with a man stuck in his youth who won't grow up. So it seems like trying to appeal to everyone and pleasing no one, I would've loved to see a harder edge to this movie instead of the kiddie/family values stuff.

The only reason I saw this movie is because I'm a fan of The Office, and I wanted to see how far Rainn Wilson could carry a starring role in a movie that I wasn't expecting much from. And he's pretty adequate, but actually funnier in the Youtube clips where he kidnaps Jenna Fischer on the set of The Office and says he won't set her free unless "The Rocker" grosses $18.7 million in its opening weekend. Kind of sad when amateurish Internet promotion of a movie is funnier than the movie.

Rainn Wilson and Jason Sudeikis (I'm too lazy to look up the spelling of his name) have some good lines, and Emma Stone may have a pretty bright future, but as a big Superbad fan I could be biased about that...other than that, pretty much nothing of value in this movie.

I hope Rainn Wilson manages to get better starring roles, the awfulness of this movie isn't his fault.

I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome as a young child, but apparently I have a very mild form of it (or I was misdiagnosed entirely), because I am nothing at all like any of the characters in this movie. I've met people who are like the characters though, so I can believe that any of those characters would be like that in the real world.

I thought it was well written and funny, and well-acted, but ultimately was more meant to be a romantic comedy than have serious meaning, and I don't know if I would've rated it so high if all of the characters had been "normal people".

One little thing I noticed, no disrespect to Radha Mitchell, though I hadn't heard of her until after I saw the movie, midway through the movie I realized she was Australian. She needs to work on her American accent because it was fading in-and-out in a pretty noticeable way.