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I didn't believe that with this cast and this director, something truly good would come, but suddenly after a few minutes, I realized I wasn't watching a classic American comedy, but an amazing absurd theatrical performance that is actually a film. Great crazy situations and jokes that almost continue in the French and Czech traditions. An incredible surprise that will likely be very overlooked. (2014.09.29)

Cinemas are still selling out nowadays with movies that are thirty years old or more and seen twenty times already, complaints are repeatedly heard that the parody genre is dead, and yet a gem like this is left aside and pretty much no one has seen it. And yet it turns the genre on its head, Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler outdo themselves and shoot one crazy word and nonverbal utterance after another, whether it grabs the viewer or not – and occasionally some more or less familiar face from Wet Hot American Summer comes to help them out. I laughed, I was shocked, I couldn't believe my eyes, but above all, I didn't understand why I hadn't shaken come together with this film myself earlier. That said, as I read more and more of the reviews, it seems that some people wouldn't recognize a sharp parody even if it hit them full in the face. When people start jibing that this comedy is somehow off, it makes me wonder if the joke's on them. (2023.12.19)