The movie is hilarious in bouts and some scenes does tickle laughs but overall its an okay ride. The movie seems like heavily inspired from a Steve Martin classic Planes, Trains and Automobiles which shows a road trip of a man eager to reach his home and who meets a nerd on the way and a series of hilarious unfortunate events. Many scenes look like inspired by this movie. For e.g. the latter movie starts with protagonists meeting on the plane, ending their journey on the automobiles, the automobile getting destroyed totally, and before that the one of the characters searching for the rented automobile in the stop. While Steve Martin plays the sophisticated sort of smart fellow in planes, trains and automobiles, which here is played by Robert Downey, the role of an irritant ass played by John here is done by Zach. The movie has few memorable totally laughable scenes which include Zach and his dog jerking off, Zach Downey and Jamie drinking the ashes of Zach's father as coffee, Zach impersonating Marlon Brando as GodFather and Zach is given a series of roles to play by Downey who believes he is shit as an actor. Apart from these the movie is forgettable and atleast for me doesn't figure as my personal fav. The movie has got average ratings on Rotten Tomatoes and good ratings on imdb which is bound to come down as the more ratings come.
As actors the movie is completed Zach's pudding. He pulls off a really good role as a irritating stupid aspiring actor who plans to make it big in Hollywood. He does total justice to his character and his character overshadows everyone. He has a bigger role than what he had in Hangover and is good. Robert Downey seems a misfit, is unable to do justice to his part and is nowhere compared to Steve Martin's frustrated, tormented soul in P,T&A. Jamie Foxx comes as shadow and leaves as one.
Not a great watch but yes definitely a try for Zach's show.
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I agree with you. But, I liked the film. In fact, I found most of the scenes hilarious. Go Galifianakis...!!!