HATED it. Yes. Hated. Thought it was one of the worst movies I’ve seen this year. Badly, badly written. Hard to judge whether the directing and acting were good or not / when the basis of the movie is that bad, the other things don’t even seem to matter.

The “funny” parts were awkward and misplaced; the scenes with the neighbors seemed to belong to some other movie, perhaps a Stephen King-type horror flick; there wasn’t really a single character (except perhaps the teenage boy) who had normal human reactions to anything that happened. And frankly, I could not even find one person I cared about, was interested in, or didn’t think was a moron. There were many times in this movie, during arguments between various characters, where one person would be yelling at the other “But you’re so smart! You’re so intelligent!” I didn’t see a single iota of evidence of that.

Tracy yelled out “Give me a break!” at one point; and we could hear people muttering “wow, so bad, so bad” as we left the theater. Since Tracy and I have rarely agreed on movies in the past month, I was surprised to find we both hated it equally. Michelle, on the other hand, seemed to like it. It cracked me up to read her comment: I find myself still thinking about this movie days after I saw it, and that’s something; because until the moment I read that, I had completely wiped this movie out of my mind. (And then I read her post and thought “OH FUCKING HELL I’ll actually have to think about it long enough to write it up. Yuck!”)

Hated it.