This movie is marketed as a comedy and attempts to make you laugh throughout the whole film, but it falls very short. In the first hour I could count the times I laughed on 2 fingers. I went into this movie expecting a funny buddy story, but came out of it having experienced a laughably unfunny film. The other aspects of the movie were not nearly focused on enough. If this movie had just attempted to be less funny, it would have been so much better. I could probably write a funnier movie and I'm not that funny.
While this is supposed to be a commentary on the inability for many people to get birth control, the "comedy" heavily overshadows this. Instead of bringing an important message to the front of the film, you are hit with attempted joke after attempted joke which truly overshadows the main message of the movie. Instead of coming out of this focusing on the message, I came out of this not really realizing what the message was because I was focusing on the failure of comedy that had happened. Again, this stands to my point that this movie would have been much better if it attempted to be less funny. The good aspects would have shown through, such as the social message and the dynamic between the two main characters. It may be strange to say, but this comedy should have tried to be less funny.
While this is supposed to be a commentary on the inability for many people to get birth control, the "comedy" heavily overshadows this. Instead of bringing an important message to the front of the film, you are hit with attempted joke after attempted joke which truly overshadows the main message of the movie. Instead of coming out of this focusing on the message, I came out of this not really realizing what the message was because I was focusing on the failure of comedy that had happened. Again, this stands to my point that this movie would have been much better if it attempted to be less funny. The good aspects would have shown through, such as the social message and the dynamic between the two main characters. It may be strange to say, but this comedy should have tried to be less funny.