Wow! Such a good movie.

Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

The whole ridiculous premise of the film is based on people thinking they are taking Valium, and instead taking a strong hallucinogenic. They say the brand name of diazepam, Valium, at least 10 times during the film. How would viewers react if they said "pepsi" or "sony" ten times during a movie? Probably not too happy.In addition, any film that tries to normalize any benzodiazepine, a class of sedatives that Valium belongs to, is careless. These drugs are extremely dangerous, highly addictive and hell to get off of. People have killed themselves because of their effects, including Chris Cornel (recently) who was taking Ativan. There have been cases of people killing themselves during withdrawal because it is so hellish.Would it be OK to make a fun movie where the characters are blithely suggesting to one another to take heroin? How about saying, "My wife took heroin for 40 years without a problem"? Heroin withdrawal won't kill you but Valium withdrawal can.No one should be allowed to say that about Valium. In fact, there are virtually no people alive today who have taken any benzodiazepine for that amount of time without problems.This whole movie was obviously paid for by Roche.

I will start with the fact that I did not like the original at all. I see other reviewers loved it. Not a fan of British comedy and thought the premise odd and childish.**Spoiler***Think the premise of killing someone, accidental or not and disposing of the body as humor is flat out insane and shows a lack of compassion that is typical of modern movies and plots.****This cast brought some life to a story line I did not care for. The original left me cold, no laughs, this remake was hysterical! This was a huge improvement because I could relate to it better. Peter Dinklage was great as the same character in both productions but believe the reason I enjoyed this movie was because of the individual talents each actor brought to it.

By making a US version of this comedy- they have dumbed it down and lost a lot in translation. Much of what made the original film great was absent, with poor acting throughout and lackluster line delivery ruining most of the jokes. The actors seemed to not understand the story and as a result the expression and tone required to pull this off just wasn't there. Martin Lawrence and Chris Rock may as well have been reading their lines...they were that bad. Tracy Morgan and Luke Wilson were also surprisingly poor. James Marsden was probably the best performance whilst all the Ladies performed reasonably well- and Peter Dinklage played the EXACT same character. This remake was genuinely pointless, a waste of money and I wish I hadn't watched it because it might put a dampener on the UK version- so I highly recommend that you watch the UK version and skip this one.

The problem nowadays, is that no one can ever make a remake and have it criticized on its on merit...instead everyone just compares it to its' original and believes that you can't like both. As a person who never saw the original, I can say that this was a a good movie. The only reason why I gave it a 9 instead of a ten is because the very very beginning (maybe the first 15 minutes) sort of coddled us through the introductions, and I much prefer a movie/TV show to dive right into the plot. But other than that, the movie was hilarious all the way through...in fact it seemed to get funnier as the story progressed. By the end of it, I was dying with laughter. The acting was great, the ensemble cast had great chemistry and each character stood out int their own way so the character development was spot on. I think that people should give this movie a real shot and don't go into it comparing it to the original because no remake is going to be the same...every remake is going to have it's own twist and creativity that's going to cater to different people...so give this movie a shot! :)