"Review of Hall Pass" or "How to Not Pick Up Chicks"

About a week ago, my roommate Zoe and I both had off a Friday night and I had been begging her to see Hall Pass with me, and I finally got her to go and we went. Hall Pass was written and directed by the Farrelly Brothers, and its interesting to see how their taste has changed since the days of Something About Mary, where there was a gross out joke around every corner. Whereas now, there are still gross out jokes, for instance the scene where the girl sneezes in the bathtub, but its not quite like when the gross out jokes used to really gross me out, such as when Mary puts jizz in her hair thinking it is hair gel or the entirety of Kingpin, most specifically my favorite lines from that movie:

• Roy: Hey, I hope you don't mind, I got up a little early, so I took the liberty of milking your cow for you. Yeah, it took a little while to get her warmed up, she sure is a stubborn one, whew.
  [Takes a drink from the bucket]
  Amish Guy: We don't have a cow. We have a bull.
  Roy: I'm gonna brush my teeth. 

To contrast this, alot of the gross out jokes in this movie were still funny, just not that gross. I mean I wasn't irked by the fact that the brother from According to Jim pooped in a sand trap while fucked up on Pot Brownies but maybe thats cuz I guess poop in sand doesn't bother me, as opposed to the one scene that did gross me out in the movie (see the aforementioned sneeze scene) where poop was used in a disgustingly hilarious manner.
Anyways, there are two storylines moving the film along, one being the boys running around unbridaled, the other being the wives who are hiding out from the hi-jinks in Cape Cod with family. Lets first talk about the wives storyline, it was fucking boring. A very tanned (although she doesn't look it in the picture above) Jenna Fischer and a very sexy Christina Applegate were fine, but their storyline was simply there to get the male characters to where they were going. All though I did the baseball player's line "You're really awesome at sex."
On the other hand, all the great stuff that happens in this movie takes place when Fred (Jason Sudeikas) and Rick (Owen Wilson) go on their matrimonial-free spiritual journey. They rent a hotel room and set loose on a long line of hilarious adventures, a day of hungover repair, a bunch of hilarious stuff with their friends, big black penis, little orange penis. This is the part of the movie that is hilarious and it is funny enough that it saves all of the rest of the filler.
I thought that it was funny, goofy enough to be really funny, plus I happen to really like both of the lead actors, so my opinion may be a bit biased. Zoe did not like it, so chicks, beware.

Final opinion: 3.5 Totally Unexplained Subway Five Dollar Footlong References out of 5