{"id":934,"date":"2016-07-26T23:41:09","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T23:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/?p=934"},"modified":"2016-07-26T23:41:09","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T23:41:09","slug":"review-mike-and-dave-needs-wedding-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/?p=934","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: Mike and Dave Needs Wedding Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, when I first saw the trailer for this, I made it no secret that the only reason I would have to see this movie was <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/?p=824\" target=\"_blank\">Anna Kendrick<\/a><\/strong>. I mean, don\u2019t get me wrong, the movie looked funny, and I was sure I would have a good time. But by no means did the trailer give me that desire that I HAD to see this in theatres.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, I was right.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In a word, this movie was <em>dumb. <\/em>Sure, no one expected this to be a high-brow movie. But it by no means delivered any gut busting laughs either.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re not familiar with the setup for this movie, 2 train wreck brothers, Mike (Adam Levine) &amp; Dave (Zac Efron), are commanded by their parents to get their shit together for their sister\u2019s wedding in Hawaii. So what do they do? Start a campaign to meet \u201cnice\u201d girls, and it ends up going viral.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Alice (Anna Kendrick) and Tatiana (Aubrey Plaza). Two equally fucked up girls like Mike &amp; Dave.<\/p>\n<p>From there? A whole lot of lame jokes, and predictable plots ensue.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, there were some great moments in the movie, like the massage scene with Kumail Nanjiani, but overall, this definitely feels like a movie we\u2019ve all scene before.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t already seen it, but want to? I\u2019d wait for a rental. There\u2019s nothing really screaming this needs to be seen on the big screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, when I first saw the trailer for this, I made it no secret that the only reason I would have to see this movie was Anna Kendrick. I mean, don\u2019t get me wrong, the movie looked funny, and I was sure I would have a good time. But by no means did the trailer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/?p=934\">Read <em>the<\/em> Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,19],"tags":[179],"class_list":{"0":"post-934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"category-reviews","9":"tag-mike-and-dave-needs-wedding-dates","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fuzzybug.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}