This giant-spider flick just wants to be one big joke, which would be fine if it were funny. There are a few amusing bits, but the humor is mostly used as a form of self-defense: The filmmakers don’t want to make you laugh as much as they want to assure you that they’re not being

Forced gross-out gags and sports cliches are in ample supply in this skateboarding comedy, while occasional attempts at absurd humor fall flat. Some of the action scenes are exciting, but seeing this in the theater essentially cost moviegoers twice. They had to pay for their tickets, then pay again by sitting through the rest of

This excruciating would-be comedy, about a French knight (Jean Reno) from the 12th century who’s transported to modern-day Chicago, is so stale it actually featured a joke about the once-ubiquitous dance song “Macarena” long after the song had been thankfully forgotten. Just Visiting overstays its welcome about three minutes in.

Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks, as mismatched fathers of the bride and groom, work up some comedic steam in this remake, but ludicrous spy shenanigans push the movie over the top. Instead of allowing the stars to deliver a small comedy of manners, The In-Laws packs them onto a Sea-Doo and sends them racing after

The Man is a buddy comedy with a fatal misunderstanding of the concept of a comedic duo. Samuel L. Jackson and Eugene Levy pair up as Derrick Vann (Jackson), a growling undercover ATF agent, and Andy Fidler (Levy), a cheery dental supplies salesman who is mistaken for an arms dealer. Rather than playing off of

David Spade’s signature trait has always been a smugness that far outweighs any talent he might have to be smug about. You may think the joke is on him as he wades through the likes of Dickie Roberts – a toothless satire about a washed-up actor (Spade) who tries to regain his fame – but

This would-be comedy, about a professional basketball player who tries out for a women’s team, is so astonishingly, obviously bad you’re left wondering who even considered going to see it. I suppose star Miguel A. Nunez Jr. has a few relatives who attended out of duty, but for the rest of us, the broad, redundant

An easygoing comedy that would have benefited from some more work. To help pay for his niece’s college tuition, an uncle (Jason Lee) and his clueless friend (Tom Green) attempt some petty thefts. Lee makes for an affable hero and Green’s bizarre antics produce a few laughs, but the downtime between gags is long and

Despite the slight novelty of having women as its main characters, The Sweetest Thing is a redundant exercise in gross-out humor. Cameron Diaz – returning to There’s Something About Mary territory, but without the benefit of an original script and a director with comic timing – stars as a single girl on the dating scene