The Long Weekend (2005)

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Cooper (Chris Klein) is a struggling actor spending his time chasing women. His younger brother Ed (Brendan Fehr) is a successful ad exec and video enthusiast until one day he finds his girlfriend in bed with another guy making a sex video.This is definitely a broad inappropriate comedy in the vein of American Pie. Some jokes worked, but most just flopped badly. The intercuts with old videos just don't work. They aren't funny and way too amateurish. Chris Klein and Brendan Fehr are fine actors, but they're both strictly straight man. Chris is being asked to be the funny man of the duo, and he doesn't fit. Brendan Fehr is playing his role too uptight. That's not funny either.

I thought this movie started out great, but took some missteps and ended up only an average funny film. Still, it's not bad.The use of various amateur videos of disgusting or hilarious or disgustingly hilarious or hilariously disgusting events was I think the major feature this film had going for it. It was, dare I say, a bold move, and I'm certain this film will be banned (or cut) in various locales for some of these few seconds.I felt that the part about saving the company was a bit unnecessary. I would have left that out.And, like so many Canadian films, it's in the closet about its location until the credits roll. Watching this film, I don't think anybody is buying the US setting, just because there are US flags on things. It's clearly Canada. The story doesn't depend on anything being in a particular city, so why not just be honest about it, instead of having this weird "we're not in Kansas anymore" feeling permeate the film?I would have left out most of the moralizing, with the appeal to god, and subsequent acting role. It just doesn't make sense for that character, and detracts from the fact that this is supposed to be a comedy.But on the whole, I enjoyed the film. It's laugh-out-loud funny at a lot of points, and some of those film clips just leave you shocked and speechless, but in a good way (if you're into being shocked and speechless). It's something you really have to watch at home, so you can rewind for those times when you ask "Did I just see that?" or worse "WHAT did I just see?"

Let me just make clear from the start why this movie gets 3/10 stars from me. 1 out of 10 stars would be a movie by people without any knowledge of making movies at all and/or with inhuman content. 2/10 stars is a movie that was made professionally but without anything good or interesting about it. So, technically "The Long Weekend" should be in that category, but let's say Chris Klein's acceptable performance saved it from that rating.Klein is just about bearable, which can't be said about the rest of this movie. Here's a short guide for aspiring makers of comedies: Tits, fart jokes, sperm or anything vulgar does not automatically equal funny. In fact, most of the time it's the opposite. The makers of "The Long Weekend" don't seem to understand that. They explore every dick joke no matter how predictable and disgusting it is. Actually, that's the best way to describe this movie: predictable, disgusting and let's add incredibly boring to that list of adjectives. The only thing remotely original about this piece of crap are the many blooper videos that are cut in from time to time. No, that's not enough to justify the making of this disaster. Not even close. Consider yourself degenerated if you think this movie is funny!

This movie was very funny, went to see it with a gang of friends and it made us all laugh. Its the film to go to if you just want to be entertained. Its a lot like other gross-out films like American Pie, Meet the parents etc...but with a twist and it takes gross-out one step further. The guys I was with picked this out but I have to say the girls did just as much laughing as they did. Chris Klein did an awesome job as Cooper - we were all a little surprised that he was so good. The Ed character was also cute he basically plays the typical Jason Biggs character but was very sweet. Would recommend to anyone who just wants to go and have a laugh.