Movies, Memories, and Musings

Going into this adventure, I was nervous to watch this movie. It feels like it would be so dated with the humor, and the references. I was put down whenever I expressed possible interest in watching any movie in this genre, or type of humor. Things like “why would you lower yourself to that humor” and “it’s so juvenile” were often thrown around with matching eye rolls and passive aggressive tones.

Here I am, thirty years old playing catch-up with movies that are decades old, and still getting referenced in pop culture. This movie was turned on in the background but ended up catching my attention more often than not, stopping me from playing Lego games on the XBox. The innuendos are very reminiscent of my experiences in high school on the band buses or between classes. As creative as my friends and I were in the jokes we made, I certainly learned a few more options from this movie.

I saw, or have very vague memories of seeing, a clip of this movie while spending time at a family member’s home once over the summer when I was very young. The only thing I knew about this movie was that Ashton Kutcher is one of the leading roles, and there is a scene with the phrase “and then…” I had no context or idea how annoying that could possibly be. The applications of that simple phrase is never ending, and the tone just flows out each time. Drives me nuts haha.

The premise of the movie is simple: two young men get absolutely wasted the previous night and cannot remember what happened. I am ashamed to say, I have had similar experience. Not remembering where I parked my car, both from a night of drinking and also because i just can’t remember. Not a behavior I condone or endorse. Certainly not one of my more proud moments, that’s for sure. Dangerous to say the least.

It is a fun short watch, certainly not for everyone. There is adult humor, great taglines, shibby! I would not mind watching it again to catch more jokes I likely missed on the first watch. Every Millennial, or at least most every Elder Millennial, has seen this movie at least once. It did not do well enough for a sequel, but you know what? That is absolutely understandable and totally okay in my book.

I give this movie ten Zoltan’s, three shibby’s, “and then…”