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I wasn’t super-excited about this as the trailer was hit-and-miss, but I had a ball. It was hilarious. I really like this kind of absurd, over-the-top humor. I actually laughed out loud on several occasions, and that’s rare. Sure, it’s a silly film, but there’s nothing at all wrong with that. Some of the jokes are quite clever, and it’s a lot of a fun. I worried there would be a lot of childish potty humor, but there wasn’t too much. Mark Wahlberg’s angry character got annoying after a while (I wanted to punch him myself), but fortunately that toned down as the film went on. The second half of the film is definitely weaker than the first, as it strains for sustainable ideas, but the ending is satisfying enough. I loved concepts like the wooden gun given to Farrell’s cop character and how that was a running joke throughout the movie (same with the joke of Wahlberg’s character having shot the famous baseball player I’d never heard of). Overall, I thought this was awesome. Way better than something like The Hangover (which was funny, but in a nastier way). This had a sense of fun to it, as though everyone involved was having a great time.