Brothers Mike (Adam DeVine) and Dave (Zac Efron) Stangle are two party loving guys who’s job is as alcohol salesmen and who consider themselves the life and soul of every party so when we see a montage of their exploits at the beginning of the film it looks like life is one long good time however when they arrive back to their bachelor pad one afternoon they find that their parents and sister Jeanie (Sugar Lyn Beard) are waiting on them to discuss her upcoming wedding in Hawaii and that they have decided that the guys are going to have to bring dates in order to try and curb their wildness. When the guys protest we are shown a second montage which shows the aftermath of their partying which include multiple injuries, fires and even a heart attack.

With no clue how to actually go about finding some respectable girls, in their wisdom, they decide to place and ad on Craigslist regarding an all expenses paid trip which gets just the type of response you would expect but of course does not bring any suitable prospects. It does however get them an appearance on the Wendy Williams Show which only worsens the situation. Just as things are looking grim Tatiana (Aubrey Plaza) and Alice (Anna Kendrick) decide a free vacation is just what they need so they devise a scheme to ensure that they are the perfect candidates. When Mike and Dave fail to see through their ruse and find out that the girls are a teacher and a hedge fund manager they decide that these girls are perfect. So while the family are initially impressed by the two charming girls their actual personas begin to surface and it becomes apparent that they may actually be more trouble than the brothers.

I found Plaza and Kendrick more interesting than the two brothers and their chemistry seemed more natural. Efron and in particular DeVine seemed to be playing more over the top than necessary and once the movie switched to Hawaii their exploits didn’t seem to be half as bad as the set up had promised, even if they were supposed to be toning it down for the benefit of their sister. The moments where characters are opening up and showing their real side behind the madness slowed the movie right down and didn’t sit well with the rest of the mania and some of the jokes were repeated until they became a little tiresome. But, as with all movies of this nature, despite the craziness and mayhem all the characters learn some valuable life lessons along the way and with a nod to the romantic comedy movies it tried to parody it ends well with a nice little song and dance number albeit with a twist.

To my surprise I found out that this film was loosely based on an actual story and the reason it was so shocking is that  nothing in the movie felt real. The character are so over the top that the movie can only be described as a surreal comedy and script writers Jay Cohen and Brendan O’Brien do not wander far from their levels of vulgarity and crassness previously shown in the Bad Neighbours films. In what is a debut effort for Jake Szymanski of Saturday Night Live fame, it’s not a bad start but at times the movie did feel like a number of different sketches put together rather than one flowing story.

If you like these type of movies then you will no doubt enjoy this as well but it’s not as clever as it wanted to be, some of the comedy seems very forced and it never reached the levels of the likes of Wedding Crashers or Role Models both of which it tried hard to surpass. So when I then found myself laughing more at the outtakes during the credits than the movie itself it told me all I needed to know.

DJ Speaks Rating: 4.5 Out Of 10