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This is supposed to be a look a the lives of Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann) a few years after Knocked Up. This is another offering by writher Judd Apatow. Maybe after this he will give it up. It is rated R because of language, adult situations, and some nudity. It is a typical toilet humor movie which wasn’t particularly funny and clocking in at over two hours was extremely repetitious and boring. Debbie’s character is even more obnoxious than Kirsten Wiig in Bridesmaids – overbearing, obnoxious, and a voice that to your ears feels like fingernails on a chalkboard. This movie just opened and there weren’t two dozen people in the theater. The best parts of the movie was Bryan Adams cameo singing “Into the Fire,” and the outtake at the end that had Melissa McCarthy in it. The only reason I didn’t get up and leave within the first hour of the movie was that there was nothing on TV.

No one could be as whiny, spoiled, tasteless, combative and reliant on annoying stand-up comedy riffs as the entire cast of this film, the most disappointing one of the year. Overlong, unnecessarily sex-obsessed and downright nasty at times, “This Is 40” feels haphazard and unfinished, despite a few moments of laugh-out-loud humor. The most horrible marriage of two horrible people raising two horrible children. If my family would act like the people in this movie, I’d sell them all into white slavery.

Entertainment Weekley gave this movie an “A-” but I say don’t waste your money on this movie, don’t buy this movie, don’t see it if you have to pay for it. Don’t worry because it will never come to network TV and it it does, it will be a silent movie because of the language.  This will surely go down as one of the top 10 worst movies of 2012. I am cancelling my subscription to Entertainment Weekley as it is a purely undependable read or the reviewer was watching something else when he wrote the review.

Rating: -5 out of 5.