If you’ve been following my other reviews this year, you’ll notice
that I haven’t made it a secret about how surprising a lot of this year’s films
have been so far. I honestly don’t know if it’s directly because of my own
expectations or if a lot of filmmakers this year have been getting better at
left-hooking the audience, but I am getting less and less confident about films
actually matching up with general audience anticipation. And yet, even with
that in mind, this is the one film that I was looking forward to the least out
of everything expected to come out this year. What’s more, as each piece of
marketing revealed more about it, the worse it ended up looking. It’s quite a
feat to take the teaser poster, with just about the least subtle dick joke I’ve
seen in quite a while, and somehow go further downhill from there but that’s
how this thing looks.
By this point, I think my expectations for this are at
their absolute lowest; unless we end up with another perplexingly offensive
offering, which isn’t exactly out of the realm of possibility, there’s no way
this could be as all-time awful as I’m expecting it to be. Could it?
