Hot Rod

Hot Rod left me asking "where was this guy's mother when he was growing up?" Who knew that bike jumps, drinking, terrible stunts and hot women could be heart stopping, eye lid dropping boredom?

Rod (Andy Samberg) is an amateur stunt man. He loves to use his moped to jump, drive in circles and make general hay. He has a standing fight with his evil stepfather, Frank (Ian McShane). Frank tells him that he can't have his respect until Rod can beat him up. When Frank takes ill, Rod knows his opportunity to beat him up has passed, unless he can find a way to pay for his surgery. He and his crew decide to do a huge jump, 15 buses, to raise $50,000. It turns out the biggest obstacle to achieving what Rod needs to achieve is Rod.

Andy Samberg is the most unimaginative, unoriginal "stupid movie" actor I have seen in many moons. He has a lot of the idiotic mannerisms of Ashton Kutcher but with the facial expressions of Laurie Metcalf, who played Jackie on Roseanne. His attempts at acting funny-angry by doing a dance scene knock off of footloose made me feel like I had morning sickness. He reminded me of the guys who wanted to get in my pants in high school, but I couldn't even bring myself to give them a pity date.

The funniest character is the rage-aholic Rico (Danny McBride.) When he goes so over the edge in a steaming rage filled beat down, I couldn't hold myself together. I vote for getting rid of everyone else in this waste of film and make the movie just Rico's scenes. Extra bonus: he is rarely in a montage scene.

Hot Rod has an endless number of montage scenes. Roll in the aisles with vomit-ous stomach pains, when you see a terrible dancing scene or three. There is also a nearly endless training montage which made me almost made me think about unrolling my eyes. I don't know if the scenes they shot were actually more stupid than the montages so they decided to cut them up and put them together, or if they meant to intentionally burn away my frontal lobe.