HALL PASS Review (1 out of 5 stars)

You'd be miserable too if you were stuck in this groaner.

This is a bland sex comedy trafficking in crude humor and the usual gross-out moments the Farrellys are known for. Rick (Owen Wilson) and Fred (Jason Sudeikis) have such roving eyes that their exasperated wives (Jenna Fischer, Christina Applegate) grant them "hall passes," or seven days of extramarital sex.

We’ve seen every element of HALL PASS before, from middle-aged suburban dorks using bad one-liners on boobalicious girls (“Do these bar napkins smell like chloroform? I’m kidding!”) to white folk dancing badly under neon lights. Throw in the requisite bar fights, a car chase and, yes, a shootout… Yawn. And ultimately these dorks’ hotter wives realize at the same time their husbands do HOW MUCH THEY LOVE THEIR SPOUSES! It would have been more interesting if each of the four had just cheated instead of merely waffling about it, but that would have required actual thought put into a storyline some executive took half an hour to conjure as Owen Wilson’s star vehicle du jour.

Wilson is 42 and looking it, so his once cute man-boy schtick seems out of whack with his aging visage. His days playing these roles, and probably headlining movies, are numbered. Besides the Wes Anderson collaborations, his choice of movies is abysmal – he clearly doesn’t care what he stars in, doing it purely for the dough.

Jason Sudeikis does perfectly fine here, the latest in a long line of individuals churned out by the SNL-to-Hollywood film star machine. But as a comedian he unfortunately doesn’t hold a candle to so many of his esteemed predecessors, from Will Ferrell to Mike Myers and Bill Murray to Eddie Murphy.

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