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Aaron Eckhart plays a character dealing with a midlife crisis where he comes off as rather pathetic and the jokes weren't funny. It goes from one awkward scene to another.

The plot is quite silly and doesn't make much sense. First his initial reaction then follow up reaction to his wife Elizabeth Banks cheating on him is rather bizarre and shows how weak he was. As well as Elizabeth Banks' character. She cheats on him with another man yet seems as if she doesn't care as she doesn't apologize and tries turning the blame on him (for using a spy camera in their bedroom). They seemed to remain close although he left to sleep at his brothers house. Everything remain relatively calm which seemed slightly unrealistic.

The scenes with Eckhart and his teenage student Logan Lerman started off okay then drifted off bizarrely. Then Jessica Alba's character enters and isn't exactly given much to work with. There were also several pointless swimming pool scenes that didn't amount to anything either.

Overall this film just reeks of desperation and Aaron Eckhart tries too hard in being funny. His haircut seemed to be of someone older wanting to seem younger. This is just a laugh free comedy and we see why it didn't make much at the box office.

This movie starts out as a saccharine rip-off of 'American Beauty,' takes a detour through 'Rushmore,' and ends up nowhere. The director or scriptwriter figured out how to convince a producer to finance this, to make a couple passable scenes, and enough images to make a decent trailer. But otherwise, there is nothing like a coherent script: it is as though an autistic savant watched a random assortment of movie clips and based his script on those loose associations.

I lack the words to convey my outrage over how bad this film is. It made me wish that the whole awful cast of characters had been blown to pieces like The Wild Bunch (whereas at the end of 'The Wild Bunch,' I felt melancholy to see those characters depart).

Also: there is a really creepy theme involving The Kid, who is supposed to be an under-18 high school kid. Aaron Eckhart's character and The Kid watch together through a window while Elizabeth Banks underdresses, Eckhart also gets high on doobie with The Kid. This is just plain creepy. If I knew a grown man was doing those kinds of things with a minor, I would call the cops. Yet this perverted subtext is never addressed or resolved; instead, it is treated as mere comic fodder.

Don't waste another moment on this movie. 'Plan 9 From Outer Space' has a better script, better acting, and better direction. It also makes more sense.