Hmm, slightly disappointing. Seth Rogen is and will always be funny when on camera but there just wasn’t a strong reason for this movie to exist. Observe and Report was just an R rated movie that went out of its way to earn it. I’m not even sure what the point was; I think something about Seth figuring out his place in this big bad world.
My guess would be that Rogen took on Observe and Report because he got to be just about the biggest asshole he could possibly portray in an hour and a half. In the beginning it was funny but he just kept acting crazier and crazier. It just became annoying by about the halfway point. Everybody else in the flick were just playing over-the-top characters so once again it was amusing to hear Michael Pena talk the first time or watch Anna Faris pull into work at the beginning of the story, but it all became tiring. Check that, Pena should speak like this in every movie he ever appears in.
Still, I laughed in consistent intervals and got cameos by Patton Oswalt and Aziz Ansari so lets call it a wash. Observe and Report was a forgettable comedy that never really clicked.
5 out of 10
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