Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

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

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Wayne LeFessier (Steve Zahn), J.D. McNugent (Jack Black), and Darren Silverman (Jason Biggs) are childhood best friends Neil Diamond fanatics. Wayne was the third string high school quarterback. J.D. was the idiot mascot. Darren was a hopelessly romantic male cheerleader pining for fellow cheerleader Sandy (Amanda Detmer). Psychologist Judith (Amanda Peet) is bitchy and has Darren wrapped around her finger. She forbids him from hanging with his two loser friends. In desperation, they kidnap her to stop their wedding. Sandy comes back into their lives. She lost her love Luigi in a trapeze accident and is going into the nunnery.It's surprising that these three comedy stars couldn't do better. Amanda Peet is not the best at playing the bitch. That's one of its big problems. She doesn't really give the audience permission to root for the two idiots. The Steve Zahn, Jack Black duo have some good bumbling fun. Eventually Peet does get angry enough to be funny. Director Dennis Dugan had made a couple of Adam Sandler movies before this and this has very similar sensibilities. Sadly he has continued to follow Adam Sandler as they both slide into the comedy wilderness.

This is one of my favorite movies. I can watch it over and over again. Being a Neil Diamond fan just puts the icing on the cake for me. Clever, funny, slapstick comedy at it's best. It reminded me of the old Laverne and Shirley episodes with lots of physical comedy and witty one liners. My daughter's and I quote this movie over and over again. Definitely worth the watch if you're in a the mood to laugh. The casting is excellent and all actors did a great job. I'm normally not a big Jack Black fan but he was excellent in this. There are many lines you will be quoting again and again. If you like Joe Dirt or Harold and Kumar, you will like this movie.

As a Frenchman, i can find easily a lot of comedies that makes me laugh (those with De Funes, Youn, ...). Abroard, i think to "Mr. Bean" (english) and i can find also a real funny American show ("Married with children"). But, right now, to find American movies where i laugh a lot is difficult except maybe those with Chevy Chase and this one! I don't say here that American movies don't make me laugh: i just say that they can't make me laugh all along. So this one is a little surprise and i thank Amanda for her choice. In this movie, she plays a sexy bad girl, which are two new things for her. She is surrounded by an excellent cast that leaves for one time the support roles for the big stage (Zahn, Detmer and Ermey). The movie is great because it builds upon a truth: what happen to friends when one got married? Again, i don't think this idea has been used a lot of times and here, it is played with genius: the script is silly but never fails into craziness in spite of it's not easy to walk on this thin line. In addition, the action takes places in a sweet town at the ocean so the exterior are refreshing. Thus, you can believe me: after the good laughs at the start, you will keep your smile for another hour!

This one takes a while to kick in, but once you get through the pretty bad opening scenes there's an outrageous avalanche of stupidity that gets the motor running. Okay, it's not all good, so let's get that out of the way. First of all, even though it's totally essential the Sandy subplot is pretty bothersome. Especially if it causes Jason Biggs to perform really bad sitcom material involving electrodes on his nipples. That scene was totally wrong for this movie, it seemed taken from some pilot episode that never got to be an actual show for this scene alone. It was embarrassing to sit through. There's also a totally random use of flashbacks throughout, dear God just tell us what happened and get it over with, it's not like any of those flashbacks contains a good joke or something. However, as the movie progresses the material does get better and Steve Zahn and Jack Black deliver like they've never delivered before. They have the on-screen chemistry of a classic comedy duo, only a lot more disturbed. Either way, "Evil Woman" (what kind of title is "Saving Silverman"?) is a movie that made me laugh in all its weirdness(an R.Lee Ermey cameo!) and it looks ever so charming. Unexpectably good.