Too many fans seem to be blown away

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Every time the characters called each other 'Money' I had to cringe. The context never worked for me even though I knew what they were trying to say. The main story here is Mike (Jon Favreau) and Trent (Vince Vaughn), and some of their situations were ridiculous, but probably not enough to write home about. The scene where they meet up with Christy (Deena Martin) and Lisa (Katherine Kendall) should have sent the girls packing, I couldn't understand how they wound up back at the girls' trailer. You know Vaughn's character doesn't believe a word he's saying which makes his statements funny, but I don't know how the girls didn't see right through him. Mike on the other hand is so lacking in self confidence and wallowing in such misery over a broken relationship that he can't move on with his life. I guess a guy can relate to both characters during a similar period in one's life, and in fact, their dialog is probably more realistic than one would care to admit. My favorite scene would have been the six phone calls in a row with Mike stepping all over himself until he gets the 'Don't call me ever again' response. When Mike broke out of his funk with that swing number by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, you just had to know his troubles were over. At that point, he was so money he didn't even know it.

I had heard the title of this movie a few times, including when one of the leading actors mentioned it in an interview or two, I had my assumptions of the meaning of the title, but I was looking forward to trying it for myself, directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Jumper, Edge of Tomorrow). Basically Mike Peters (Jon Favreau) is a struggling comedian who left New York City to find success in Los Angeles, and he is still upset about his girlfriend of six years, Michelle, breaking up with him six months ago. Mike's womanising friend Trent (Vince Vaughn, also writing) wants to help Mike with his depression, they and other aspiring actors try and get back into the social scene. Mike talks to his friend Rob (Office Space's Ron Livingston) about how desperately he misses Michelle, and that she has not called him, Rob thinks that she will only call him once she has completely moved on. To help Mike out, Trent coaxes him into an unplanned trip to Las Vegas. Trent succeeds in picking up two waitresses, but Mike's obsession with Michelle ruins things. Back in Los Angeles, Mike, Rob and other friends go bar hopping, stopping at a party, where Trent demonstrates his prowess in handling the opposite sex. Mike is inspired by this and meets a girl named Nikki (Brooke Langton) and gets her phone number, however he makes a number of increasingly anxious and desperate messages on her answering machine, to the point when she answers and disgustedly tells him not to call again. Mike misses Michelle more than ever, he contemplates moving back to New York until Rob comes over and consoles him. Out again for swing night at a Hollywood night club, Mike meets a girl named Lorraine (Heather Graham), he gains courage to approach her and connect with her. The next morning, Mike is called by Michelle, but he finds he no longer misses her, he also receives a call from Lorraine, he decides to end the call with Michelle to connect further with Lorraine. Also starring Patrick Van Horn as Sue and Alex Désert as Charles. Favreau does well as the out-of-work actor whose confidence has been shattered, and Vaughn gives a great performance as his charismatic friend refusing to let him wallow, Favreau's script is semi-autobiographical, based on his own experiences working in Hollywood, I will admit I did not follow a full story, but all the swinging parties and loads of men having banter, picking up women and complaining a lot is amusing, not a bad comedy drama. Worth watching!

"Swingers" is one of those legit '90s movies (NHL '94! Hipsters! Big Bad Voodoo Daddy!). Dated isn't the word to describe this, but time capsule is. If coffeeshop L.A. were a genre, this'd be its mascot.For me, the movie was sort of a grind in the beginning; nothing really clicked with these characters, the lounge poser shtick wasn't funny, and I just wasn't getting what made the movie such a big deal. But it was around the halfway mark that the magic started to happen. Vince Vaughn suddenly became funny, Favreau's angst really took on substance, and the friendship really blossomed. Once Heather Graham showed up and threw out some rays of sunshine, I was hooked.Good movie.7/10

Doug Liman's lively film 'Swingers' tells the story of a group of young men in Los Angeles, and one in particular, John Favreau's Mike, who is struggling to rebound after the end of a previous relationship. Mike is offset by his juvenile, sexist friends; and yet the film seems somehow to be celebrating as well as mocking their world of sleazy charm and, as they would assert (not always convincingly), easy women. For example, they use the expression "you are the money", as a way of hyping up each others' self confidence, which seems particularly unappealing, which the script seems to be both be laughing at and endorsing. Indeed, the overall plot is presented as an essentially happy story where at the end Mike is "money" once again. Liman handles this material with aplomb; but I'm not sure I'd actually like to live in his world.