Film Review – Amateur Night

It’s hard not to feel a little depressed about the state of the R-rated comedy. Instead of using the restrictive rating to engage in adult situations with a sharper sense of humor, most filmmakers would rather take the easy route, going for gross-outs and dim, profanity-laden improvisation to secure laughs. “Amateur Night” is the latest example of silliness soured by bad ideas, finding writer/directors Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse (who previously scripted the moronic “Parental Guidance”) working to generate a madcap tone of disasters and near-misses for their feature, only to depend on cheap jokes to snap the viewer out of slumber. “Amateur Night” isn’t wild or funny. It would rather spray its characters with vaginal fluid than dream up a killer punchline. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com