I’m very specific when movies come out: if I don’t watch it on its release weekend or get a screening pass, I would just wait until the movie comes out on DVD to watch it, rarely I take time during the week to catch up on the weekend’s latest releases. In this case, last night I found myself extremely bored at home and ended up checking out “Hall Pass”, Owen Wilson’s and Jason Sudeikis’ latest comedy that hit theaters last friday February 25th.
In “Hall Pass”, both Rick (Owen Wilson) and Fred (Jason Sudeikis) are 2 married man that think that if it weren’t for their wives Maggie (Jenna Fischer) and Grace (Christina Applegate) respectively, they would be hooking up with sooo many women. After Maggie notices that Rick is checking out girls in her presence and Grace finds out that Fred was caught by the police..um, jerking off in his car? LOL, they both decided to give their husbands a Hall Pass: a week off from marriage where they could do anything they wanted.
A Hall Pass, as Rick and Fred and even their friends say it is any married man’s dream. Throughout the 7 days of the pass you see the two guys trying to call girls attention and doing what they would have if they were single. Well, for me the movie was basically the trailer, even with its funny parts like the one where Gary (Steve Merchant) one of their friends, shows up one day when they’re playing golf under the influence of hash brownies was one of the parts that made me laugh. Some other scenes that were not in the trailer were just merely okay, I thought the movie was going to be way more funny than on the trailer. At some points I found myself checking the time on my phone wondering when will it be over. Yeah, that bad.
The only things that I liked, even though the movie was fairly predictable, but hey! the soundtrack was good! They played Empire of The Sun like two times LOL, and also my favorite scene was the one during the credits showing Gary and his wife and this was the time that I legitimately laughed out loud, this one should’ve been in the final cut of the movie.
My suggestion: Hall Pass is funny, but if you’ve seen the trailer you already know which parts I’m talking about. In my opinion, you should wait until it comes out on DVD because to be honest, I would have rather watched Gnomeo & Juliet last night instead of Hall Pass and I bet in that one I wouldn’t be checking the time!
Hall Pass is in theaters now.
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