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

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

The biggest waste of 2 1/2 hrs of my life. I honestly got cancer and wished I died by the time it ended! Anticlimactic and worse than the first time I tried to have sex.

Hand on Heart, then I wasn't really expecting much from this movie, as I don't really think Adam Sandler is funny anymore, and Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill never were funny.The comedy in "Funny People" was forced and never really got up to a point where it brought about any laughs from me. And as such, then it was a strained ordeal to sit through this movie.The selling point of the movie was Leslie Mann, but despite her appearing in the movie and her good performance, then it wasn't enough to lift up the level of this movie. Not by a long shot."Funny People" seems like a rather pointless movie, and it wasn't particularly memorable. After having seen it, I can now say that the movie will go to the movie shelves and just slowly fade into oblivion. I assume that I was not in the target audience.Fans of Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen or Jonah Hill might get a kick out of "Funny People". Other than that, I can't really see any reason to spend two hours and twenty minutes on this.

Adam Sandler's best film to date, I know that is not saying much but this is still a solid film.What makes the film work is Adam Sandler's performance (bet you never though you'd hear that ever). Sandler is much better at drama than comedy and in this film you see a real 3 dimensional human being who honestly believes that he is doing the right thing in terms of getting his life back on track. This is relatable because we have all been in that situation where we wanted something so bad we were completely blind-sided to how it might affect other people and how selfish we were being. The chemistry between Sandler and Seth Rogen, you really begin to sympathize with Rogen's character because you see how much he has grown to care for Sandler's character. The rest of the cast did well, Leslie Mann, Jonah Hill, RZA etc. They all served their purpose but I did feel that they were more there to help the plot move along as opposed to seeing characters.An area where the film falls flat was, as with many of Apatow's films, the film could have been at least 30 minutes shorter and there were several scenes and characters that did not serve purpose and did not need to be there. For example, there were at least three musical montages over the course of the film, I believe the film could have got by with at least one fewer. Also, Aziz Ansari's character was not funny and really did not need to be in the film as he did nothing to add to the plot.However, apart from that Funny People is still a strong drama. I say drama because it is not that much of a comedy. What I love about Apatow's films is that he makes dramatic films with very funny moments to balance out the drama and tension and I like that. You will not cry with laughter but I believe you will be entertained.

it is great to see a movie that dare to go towards unmasking an inconvenient truth to approach to comedy (i.e. trying to be a mirror of the lives of comedians). However, the movie fell short of its great ambitions. If you want to be funny, be funny; if you want to be serious, be serious; if you want to be in the middle, find ways to stay in the middle but please at least retain the quality! Unfortunately, many moments in this movie try to achieve the third category (probably trying to achieve something realistic?) but always ends up missing the boat. The movie experience in the end was just uninteresting, and I felt that it has been dragging the movie unnecessarily long.