Pot comedies may not be rocket science, but a few more script revisions would have probably gone a long way here.
Eastbound & Down is myopic, wasting its focus on shortsighted laughs rather than giving us something we have not seen before.
Observe and Report is funny most precisely because it’s sad—as well as sick, skeezy, and just this side of scary.
Unlike Napoleon Dynamite, the film steers clear of condescension or cruel laughs at its protagonist’s expense.