Yes, it means what you think it means — but also more! Jack Black commits, wholeheartedly and straightfacedly, to the part of Dan Landsman, a Midwestern guy with an admiring boss, a great wife, and a good kid who is nevertheless obsessed with having some bros. Guy friends, like the guys who don't invite him for drinks after high school alumni association meetings. So he hits on a plan to seduce Oliver Lawless (James Marsden), the local boy made good — if by "good," you mean starring in a suntan lotion commercial — into attending their 20-year reunion. The plan succeeds, but it requires some slipperiness with the truth (among other things), and for a while, it looks like Dan's deceptions and desperation will develop in a genuine black comedy. Sadly, the film lacks its hero's willingness to "go there" for the sake of glory, and winds up merely middling — a fatal flaw. (2015) — Matthew Lickona
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