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Everyone in this movie is so likeable! The good guys, the bad guys, the police, the girlfriends, the boyfriends, the bosses – everyone. I don’t know if that hurt it or helped people’s view of it but I liked every minute of it in my rum-soaked view of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written and directed (with David Palmer) by Dax Shepard, the film is about Charles Bronson\/Yul Perrkins, an imformant in witness protection who is in love with Annie Bean (Kristen Bell) who doesn’t really know about him; and didn’t ask during the last year; and then got mad when he hadn’t told her. She gets a dream-job offer in L.A. the only place on earth Yul can’t go but they go anyway in spite of his U.S. Marshall goofball (Tom Arnold) protector’s protests. Annie’s ex-boyfriend Gil Rathbinn (Smallville’s Lex Luthor Michael Rosenbaum with hair. Sorry Michael, it’ll take time.) doesn’t want to let her go (even though they broke up a year ago) and he rats Yul out to his former bank-robbing partners. Let the hi-jinx commence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chemistry between Kristen (I call her Kristen because we’re friends. At least that’s what the collages on my basement wall prove) and the guy who plays<\/em> her boyfriend in this film as well as in real-life feels really genuine, in a Mr. and Mrs. Smith kind of way. It’ll never last. I don’t want to sound bitter but come on!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Story<\/em> gets a +2 because it’s a solid point A to point B story with little straying. The Look<\/em> gets a +3 because it was well shot and considering how many speeding cars were filmed, it still always looked good. The CGI to make Owen Wilson look like his alter-ego Dax Shepard was amazing, way better than Looper<\/em>…what? That’s not Owen Wilson in disguise? Really. Any-hoo! The Overall Casting<\/em> is top-notch (+2), I  loved everyone in their place, even Bradley Cooper in white-guy dreads<\/em>. The Commitment to Genre<\/em> scores a +2 because it’s a road-trip movie, a buddy movie, a vignette movie – it’s all good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subtotal: +9<\/p>\n\n\n

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I will add a point (+1) for the pit-bull scene. I will deduct -3 points because Annie never asked about Charles\/Yul’s past and then got upset with him because of his past and this was a big part of the story. I will add a point (+1) for the Pouncer<\/em> app but will deduct a point (-1) because they didn’t use it with Jason Bateman. I will add two points (+2) for the Jail-Rape discussion. It was hilarious! I will deduct a point (-1) for the bowling ball not playing a more important role. I’ll add a point (+1) for the awesome 1967 Lincoln and the fact that it actually belongs to Dax Shepard, and another (+1) because he did the stunt driving! Unfortunately, I must deduct a point (-1) for nothing coming of the stolen engine – that needed to happen, Dax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Total: +9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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