The D Train (2015)

I'll tell you why so serious

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

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

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Well, this movie totally sucks. The only good part about it is James Marsden, and also he is the only reason I gave this movie a six. It deserved one, to be honest but just for James Marsden's handsome face it got plus five from me. All I'm trying to say is don't watch it. It's just a waste of time but If you have plenty of it and you wanna see a handsome guy, then I'm sure you gonna like it.

A few great actors were roped into what can only be described as the WORST movie Jack Black has ever made. Lacking a coherent plot, and failing with every laugh this movie is about as devoid of comedy as a holocaust documentary. I tried to like it and give it a chance, but it just got worse and worse as it went on.By the end I was sure they were using this film in Guantanamo to extract information from terrorists. Just avoid.

Dan Landsman (Jack Black) is a self-important sad man. He's married to Stacey (Kathryn Hahn) with teen son Zach. His boss is computer-adverse Bill Shurmur (Jeffrey Tambor). He has lived a limited life. He's the unliked lead organizer of his 20th year high school reunion. One night, he catches a TV commercial with popular former classmate Oliver Lawless (James Marsden). He insists that Oliver was a friend. He goes out to LA to invite Oliver to the reunion which culminates in a drunken sexual awakening.This is a dark comedy which left me cold. Dan is annoying, pathetic, and unfunny. His dilemma and his obsession is just as annoying, just as pathetic, and just as unfunny. This could have gone darker to go crazy with this premise but it doesn't. At the end of the day, I never cared about these characters and the movie doesn't make me care about them. It ends rather flatly. Sometimes, Jack Black takes on this other side of the coin. I wait for him to truly hit it out of the park with this persona.

Writer directors Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul seem to want it both ways. With this movie they throw in all forms of crude low-life drug and sexual sensationalism while expecting us to look for something higher. Problem is it's never clear to the viewer just what audience they are aiming for - what they want to say - or where they are rightly heading. This is a pity because on one hand they are saying look at all the available crap you can indulge in (and they pile it on) but then attempt to introduce a halfway interesting awareness angle that's not always quite as convincing as it needs to be - leaving audiences a little confused and hanging in irritated limbo.The story and its characters are weak and vulgar but we are supposed to find something lovable about them. Any quality moral insights are shrouded in dubious message type situations - IE: If spending quality time with your 14yr old son is reduced to talking about the merits of a threesome - then these folk need to take a very serious look at their understanding of responsible parenting!. It also looks as if they and the producers sold their souls to the 'cancer stick' companies - with heavy 40's style cigarette shot usage - each one glamorously 'set-up' for all their characters (no matter what age) add-nauseous. Give us a break - it took a long time to educate humanity and clean up the air but takes such a short time for commercial fools to kill it again.What could have been a good try at worthy character observations ends up as a "let's make a film for everybody" that ends up pleasing next to no-one. What's left are reasonable intentions buffed to a trashy finish....It's also a another case of the Hollywood promotions machine not knowing how to sell its product to the right audience.