Let me just make clear from the start why this movie gets 3/10 stars from me. 1 out of 10 stars would be a movie by people without any knowledge of making movies at all and/or with inhuman content. 2/10 stars is a movie that was made professionally but without anything good or interesting about it. So, technically "The Long Weekend" should be in that category, but let's say Chris Klein's acceptable performance saved it from that rating.
Klein is just about bearable, which can't be said about the rest of this movie. Here's a short guide for aspiring makers of comedies: Tits, fart jokes, sperm or anything vulgar does not automatically equal funny. In fact, most of the time it's the opposite. The makers of "The Long Weekend" don't seem to understand that. They explore every dick joke no matter how predictable and disgusting it is. Actually, that's the best way to describe this movie: predictable, disgusting and let's add incredibly boring to that list of adjectives. The only thing remotely original about this piece of crap are the many blooper videos that are cut in from time to time. No, that's not enough to justify the making of this disaster. Not even close. Consider yourself degenerated if you think this movie is funny!
The Long Weekend
2005
Action / Comedy
The Long Weekend
2005
Action / Comedy
Keywords: one-night stand
Plot summary
Cooper and Ed are brothers: Coop acts in ads and soaps, spending his real energy chasing women for one-night stands. His younger brother Ed, an earnest young man, works in an ad agency. For the past year, since finding his girlfriend in bed with another man with a video camera running, Ed has been in a funk: he's carried a torch, his social life has tanked, and his work has suffered. Ed will be fired on Monday unless he can save a major account. It's his birthday weekend: he wants to work, but Cooper wants Ed to rediscover his sex life. Cooper works hard to help Ed score, but disaster piles onto disaster. Can a decent guy save his job and get a life?
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Piece of crap if ever I saw one
A lot of inappropriate jokes, 1 or 2 was actually funny
Cooper (Chris Klein) is a struggling actor spending his time chasing women. His younger brother Ed (Brendan Fehr) is a successful ad exec and video enthusiast until one day he finds his girlfriend in bed with another guy making a sex video.
This is definitely a broad inappropriate comedy in the vein of American Pie. Some jokes worked, but most just flopped badly. The intercuts with old videos just don't work. They aren't funny and way too amateurish. Chris Klein and Brendan Fehr are fine actors, but they're both strictly straight man. Chris is being asked to be the funny man of the duo, and he doesn't fit. Brendan Fehr is playing his role too uptight. That's not funny either.
Plain stupid
The main characters are somewhat likable and it's mostly so non-PC, that I'd love it, if I'd love this movie more. But it just never really is good. Gross & crass? Yes that it is, but then again, if that's all you're looking for, I'm sure you're better off watching Jackass or something similar like that. Hell even a few inserted videos can be found on the internet (you know where, the usual sources for videos, you'll find them or maybe you've even found/seen them before)!
So of course there's not much of a story here and it's mostly not funny, but a few moments are funny. And that few moments are good. A shame then, that there couldn't be more of them ...