This never seemed possible, but The Rise of Thadland is an even worse comedy than The Hangover Part II. It is raunchy only for the sake of trying to be funny, it is disgusting only for the sake of attempting to create shock humor, and there just simply isn't the energy in this movie which the television show had to offer.

The premise is so straightforward and simple that it gets to be a bore right after Thadland actually becomes a thing. Moran needs to win over Thad for him to buy the goathouse so it doesn't get taken away for them. Thad's request is simple: throw an awesome party for him and he'll put up enough money to win the goathouse over in the auction. The bulk of the movie is this party Moran agrees to throw, making most of the humor in the movie drug-related. We watch people trip out on drugs for the comedy, which ends up being a bore and not funny at all. Also, it is clear which part of the movie has an extended nc-17 clip in the bonus features, and it is too disgusting to imagine how the nc-17 version would have looked and not funny at all.

Of course Alan Ritchson as Thad shines as the star of the movie, though he is not the protagonist. He delivers the same goof ball we are all fond of in the television show, but the script just didn't allow him to shine AS MUCH as he did in the television series. The best moments focus around him, but sadly there are less than a handful of these moments.

There is no way that anything released in 2016 will be as terrible as this film.

1.0/4.0

Remember when someone your Dad's age tried to do things to be "cool".It did not work then and it does not work now.

Nothing is sadder than a group of men in their early THIRTIES who are pretending to be College Students... and immature frat boy type college students at that.

Alan Ritchson is at least twelve years too old to be playing this role! He has pretty much aged out of the roles he had played so far in his career. If he is to have a future in the film business, he needs to start playing roles which are remotely similar to his chronological age.

This movie appears to have been made by a bunch of old geezers who are throwing in every counterculture thing they can think of -- all in an effort to make this film appealing to "the young folk". Most college students are not stupid enough to believe that this is "entertainment".

Especially offensive is the way in which Women are treated in this film. There is one particularly annoying character who is such an incredibly "Dumb Blonde", she will offend other blondes of sub average intelligence. Come on guys, this is not funny, it is just stupid and not in a good way.

While there are some viewers who will find this film enjoyable . For those of us who do NOT live in our Mother's basement, it is a total waste of time.

Blue Mountain State was a series that was absolutely hilarious, celebrating the college campus drinking culture of many US establishments of higher education, bro culture, near complete disregard of women beyond their physical attributes and despite purportedly being about a football team a single game was seen across 3 complete series. Backed up by a cast of 1 dimensional characters the TV show BMS was a hedonistic feast for male 13-20 something viewers everywhere.

The Rise of Thadland however did not capture this same magic in any respect. Although featuring that same cast of characters they seem slightly out of place in this new feature, hollow renditions of previously well loved caricatures. The plot of the film is simple enough and totally predictable in as many aspects of a traditional BMS episode. However where the TV show's plot lines were funny the film's felt as though a single BMS episode had been stretched to the 90 minute mark. Unfortunately such stretching left the film mostly mirthless and in many respects just plain sad as there weren't enough jokes to go around despite some brief moments of hilarity.

Overall I give credit to the showrunners in trying to milk what was a very entertaining golden calf. However they ended up merely flogging a dead horse.