What was great about this movie? The cast, the crew, the story, and the animation. What was bad about this movie? Well, the animated story is cool, and even though it deals with the body and bodily functions, there wasn't anything really bothersome or disgusting in it. Which is why I was happy to take my girlfriend and her son to see this film. But during the live action parts of the film, the Farrelly Brothers returned to their true comedic film making form where nothing is taboo or out of bounds, and gross-out equals funny. My girlfriend nearly puked about four different times during the live action portions of the film. She stormed out of the theater before the credits even began rolling because she hated the live action so much. Somehow it all became my fault. Fortunately she dumped me recently, so her opinion on this film means squat to me now. But I would have to stand, as a critic, on the ground that the animated sequences of the film did not flow smoothly into the gross live action scenes. It's almost as if you are getting top-notch Don Bluth post-Titan A.E. animation, then you have to cinch up your stomach and settle into barf-and-zit-popping comedy served up Farrely Brothers' style. It just didn't mix well at all. Everything else was fantastic. The cast, the animation, the story, the soundtrack, the back-story, the overt sub-plots, everything. The only real problem was that the two parts of the story didn't blend well. It would have been better if either Matt Groening or Mike Judge had directed the animated story so that it would be more adult oriented humor, or if Ivan Reitman or someone of his ilk had directed the live action bits so that it would have been more family oriented humor. Because trying to do both in the same film doesn't work.
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