Durfy’s friends advise him that he should work with Mark Wahlberg-“ Entourage” star Kevin Dillon is also in the movie-or maybe channel some of his pent-up frustration into his auditions (“I self-tape,” he whines in a later scene). Jokes about Hollywood or “ La La Land,” as a couple of characters call it, are the most convincing since they’re seemingly the most personal: insecure extra Durfy ( Dax Shepard) makes himself a target of cynicism, I mean criticism, just by being enthusiastic and hopeful about his meagre roles. “Buddy Games” has several unfunny, drawn-out gags about Hollywood, effective laxatives, and horny women. They kid because they love, but really, they only love themselves. But that doesn’t stop Bob and the gang from wringing their hands while also boasting about how accomplished and vain, but also self-conscious and ultimately generous they all are. That gift is predictably the set-up to a dumb third act punchline later on, as one might expect based on the comedic law of Chekhov’s Swimmers.
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Bender also tries to appease his guilt by offering Shelly a refrigerated humidor full of his own semen. That little narrative ellipsis is more telling than the rest of the movie’s convoluted plot: Shelly didn’t want to talk to his friends, so they shouldn’t have to feel bad for him.īut they do feel bad, especially Bender, who raises $10,000 in cash to enter the Buddy Games, though the competition doesn’t have an entry fee, by prostituting himself and selling vodka in his mini-van (don’t ask, it doesn’t get funnier). Shelly’s buddies tried to reach out to him between now and then, but he didn’t respond to them (“I just had a lot on my mind”). Rich guy Bob (Duhamel) treats his friends to a lavish obstacle course that looks like a wealthy mook’s version of “American Ninja Warrior,” complete with electric eels, mud pit, and a “big-ass waterslide.” Bob waits five years before reinstating the Buddy Games because it takes him half a decade to learn of Shelly’s predicament (and only because his mom tells Bob).
Still, Duhamel and his two co-writers pay a lot of lip service to the proud heterosexual tradition of rich men negging each other, and then applauding themselves for their “tough love,” as Zane ( James Roday) boasts later on. If this guy doesn’t deserve his comeuppance, I don’t know who does. They’re not, by the way, though that’s probably obvious from the establishing scene where Shelly slaps Mark (Randy Rafuse) in the face with his low-hanging fruit while boasting about not having showered for three days. The rest of “Buddy Games” is a tortured, dim, and unbearably neurotic comedy about five self-styled alpha males who think that their lives would be so much better if they could just comfortably waste their own money on the titular competition-a “Jackass”-style gauntlet of gross-out competitive stunts-and never have to worry about whether or not they’re nice guys.
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