Hall Pass

USA 2011, 105 minutes
Dir. Pete Farrelly, Bob Farrelly
Rating: [R16]
Genres: Comedy

Feat. Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis, Christina Applegate, Jenna Fischer, Richard Jenkins, Stephen Merchant, Alexandra Daddario

Aroview: The Farrelly brothers' crass comedy of marital anxiety in which two friends are given a week off - or 'Hall Pass' - from monogamy by their respective wives, to find the single life is not what they expected.

Memories of their earlier, funnier comedies and even shades of MEET THE PARENTS expose this as the lacklustre retread it really is, with the now 40-something Wilson also showing signs of comic fatigue. But it isn't bottom-of-the-barrell either, and will comfortably keep man-boys and their tolerant partners reasonably amused.