Review of Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016) by Lee H — 11 Aug 2016

Was very disappointed by this. It's one of these comedy films that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever towards the end, when the characters have to get in even more ridiculous situations to generate the laughs or not in this case.

Films like 'Step Brothers' that do something similar work because the comedy is consistently funny throughout, so you forgive the stupid parts of the story. This is more like the Hangover sequels where the laughs are meant to be from the situations the characters find themselves in, but like those films it doesn't work.

That's not to say there aren't some funny moments in this, they're just too far apart to make it good. Some of the characters are also very annoying and you don't root for them at all and hardly any character acts the way a real person would act if these situations actually arose, which is a frequent problem with most comedies nowadays.

I think I actually laughed more at the out takes during the credits. Not a very good film 2 out 5 stars.