This movie is quite hilarious at times. There are spots in this movie that will crack you up so hard that you honestly think you are losing it. There are sight gags galore involving penises and poop and just all kinds of bodily fluids, and there are jokes about other bodily fluids, and jokes about sex that are just hysterical.

This movie belongs to Jason Sudeikis, who comes off similar to Woody Harrelson in Kingpin, making what should be a star-making turn, but will probably end up getting him great character work for the next few years, just like Harrelson.

Owen Wilson is okay. He plays the doting, down-to-earth, nerd very well. Especially since most of his characters have been the goofy weirdo hipster, it’s strange to see him playing this character so well. The supporting cast shines quite a lot too. The women are just kind of there, unfortunately, as Fischer and Applegate don’t get much to work with.

And the cameos/small bit actors all come from other Farrelly movies, like Vanessa Angel in a blink and you’ll miss it cameo, Ed Moran who has been in almost all of their films (he was the bartender in Dumb and Dumber and Vanessa Angel’s evil ex-boyfriend from Kingpin), and other cameos from Alyssa Milano and Andrew Wilson and a small role by the kid from Road to Perdition.

I know I wrote a lot in the good spot, but this movie follows a lot of the same problems as all other comedies these days. Instead of going full bore and just taking us on a ride and a pure comedy, it has to shoehorn in the reality and the drama. I am sick to death of movies doing this, especially by today’s standards when all I want to see is just comedy. That’s all I ask for, and yet, people like the Farrelly Brothers have tamed just like Judd Apatow.

I feel that this movie would have been better served had they cut about 20 minutes of crap. And most of that was filler, scenes with the wives, scenes with the set up, scenes with just nothing happening. There is a lot of that. The movie works best when Sudeikis and Wilson and their friends are being idiots or when they’re out trying to score.

It does not work when they are discussing the future with their friends, or their wives, or their families. There is one scene, specifically, in which Joy Behar explains the Hall Pass idea, that just stops the movie immediately. It comes out of nowhere, it makes no sense to even be in the movie, and it shows just how bad of an actress and how lost these three women are in this movie.

If you’re looking for a solid laugh, you could do much worse. But there are countless funnier movies that have come out in the past, and this just barely stands alongside the Farrelly Brothers hits like Dumb and Dumber or Me Myself and Irene or Kingpin. If you go in expecting any of those three movies, you’ll be disappointed. But if you were soured on the Brothers like I was on films like Stuck on You or the piece of crap baseball movie they did, then this should give you hope that they haven’t lost everything.