Game Over, Man! Review: 5 Ups & 5 Downs

2. The Sentimental Moments Don't Work

Like so many comedies revolving around the bond between several man-children, there's a fairly unnecessary attempt here to shoehorn some Real Emotion into the mix, and it predictably doesn't really work.

In a fashion similar to Superbad's central trio dynamic - though nowhere near as successful - the dramatic crux of the friendship between idiot leader Alexxx (Adam DeVine), nerd Joel (Blake Anderson) and drug addict Darren (Anders Holm) is that Joel and Darren are drifting away from Alexxx, and they haven't got the heart to tell him.

This is inevitably confronted and dealt with in act three with more than a few pointless, semi-serious interludes that just take time away from what really works in this film: the ribald laughs and inspired insanity.

Performance-wise, these moments are fine, but they don't feel remotely earned and are completely at odds with the tone of the rest of the movie.