This is definitely lowest common denominator stuff...but man, is it a funny movie. Very little story or character development, but that's to be expected, and frankly, it's welcome in this one. Great ensemble cast of comedians. No one really stole the show from the rest of the group, and that was nice to see.
The teacher taking his students field trip money to fund his Vegas trip? Classic.
"Paging Dr. ***got!"
The semi truck thing...classic.
The police car bit...classic.
The tiger in the car? And then the guys pushing it to Mike Tyson's house? Classic.
Ken Jeong was annoying, funny, then annoying again, then funny again.
I absolutely loved the ending. I think Doug being left on the roof and being found half conscious and dehydrated is probably the funniest, most satisfying end there could have been. I was actually a little pissed when it appeared he'd been kidnapped.
The end credits are phenomenal. Showing what they showed in one slide, and then showing it AGAIN in a second slide...comedy gold. And Ed Helms ripping out his own tooth...priceless.
I thought it was a bit inconsistent, with some scenes (the hospital) not working really well, but very, very funny when it was funny.
Not one of the great comedies, but I don't think I've ever seen the audience engaged in a comedy the way they were for this. The pacing of the humor was interesting. Instead of a joke every few minutes, it was just oddly paced funny stuff.
I'd see a sequel.
