Mean spirited with some comedy moments, but half the time the viciousness of it all takes away from the humor. It wasn't terrible, but I think it could have been more.

3/5

Sure, it was a misunderstood film. It's still bad though.

Meh.

Violence in the unimaginatively titled Observe and Report is loud and blunt -- making it the ugliest, most hate-filled comedy since Borat.

Pretty funny, but honestly, a dumb fucking movie.

I had to watch this because I love Rogen, but even he couldn't save it. I don't remember laughing once. Only for when you have time to kill and absolutely nothing else to watch. The bloopers in the DVD were killer though.

"Jody Hill takes Ben Stiller's comedy-of-awkwardness to painfully uncomfortable, extreme realms, offering up unrepentantly disagreeable characters who confront their deep insecurities through psychotic displays of machismo." - Nick Schager

I'm not sure I can think of a single good thing to say about this movie. It wasn't funny, at all. It was sad and stupid and obscene. I wish I could have those 90 minutes of my life back. Just when you think things can't get any more crazy or disturbing they do. There is no moral to the story. There is no story to the story. And sadly there is very little comedy either.

There's a moment in the middle of this movie when a character walks ashamed out of a room, saying "I thought this would be funny, but it's really sad." It's a nice little moment that epitomizes the problem with this movie: the balance between humor and pathos is in a constant, uncomfortable balance that doesn't quite work in the end. The film tries to make the protagonist likable by candidly revealing his many, many flaws, but it doesn't give us enough to like about him.

Director/writer Jody Hill once again presents a comedy centered around a loser protagonist with some serious issues. The dark humor in the film is certainly hard to swallow at times, making you laugh and simultaneously delivering a punch to the gut. Seth Rogen, in particular, gives an excellent performance as a seriously disturbed man who you also can't help feeling a little sorry for due to his internal turmoil. Like any great comedy, Observe and Report has much to say about real life.

Whilst the humour is hit and miss (some is genuinely hysterical, and generally the more shocking the better here) there's a very real, deep cutting undercurrent here that works really well. I thought that it could have been emphasised a little more, but for what it is it was unnerving at times. The delusions of grandeur theme is explored adequately. Without giving anything away, the ending was what I assumed it would be, but for some reason I think that something darker would work even better.

This is what a well running dry looks like. When you make the same movies with the same characters...there are a few scenes that are funny but this movie is embarassing...its a cash in fast film...

More crass then funny. Character study? Not really. There is nothing to be learned here.

Funny :)

My, this is ugly. Jody Hill seems to think that comedy can be achieved simply by depicting out of control aggression in multiple forms. Don't find it funny when someone screams "Fuck you"? How 'bout if they whisper it? The film is shapeless and directionless. It wanders around like a frothing, ranting vagrant who the film's central character would be dispatched to remove from the outskirts of the parking lot.

Someone described it to me as "If Travis Bickle was a mall cop". I can't say that I'd agree with that, and I expected the movie to be much darker than it was because of that recommendation. For the most part, the film plods along, and you don't really get the climax that you want. The film isn't a complete loss, however. Rogen isn't bad at all, and Jody Hill shows himself as a very capable writer/director. It's worth a viewing.