Witless, trendy twaddle and psycho-babble of the most annoying variety. This may well be the worst film ever made. It is difficult to believe that anyone has ever made it through this movie in one sitting. It is hard to decide which element of this film is the worst: the acting, which is stiff, yet glistening with the desperation of young, hungry actors trying to find meaning in this piece of dreck; the writing, in which the aching banality is broken up only by the sense of irritation that is the inevitable outcome of listening to the ill-considered opinions of dullards; or the cinematography, which is flat, insipid and unattractive.There are a few people involved with this film, such as David Cross and Maura Tierney, who have shown real talent in the past. One imagines they intensely regret their association with this piece of tripe.

Melvin (Writer Micheal Blieden, adapting his own stage play for the small screen), meets up with friends, old and new, over dinner and has a conversation about ghosts, religion, sex, secrets, and religion (not necessarily in that order). The conversation itself is engaging and flows nicely, but the scenes out of the restaurant,though not without merit (David Cross, Jack Black, and Maura Tierney, have good parts in said parts), tend to mess up the flow of the film somewhat. And based on the film I'd be interested in seeing the play.My Grade: B- DVD Extras: Commentary by Bob Odenkirk, Micheal Blieden, and cast members; Second Commentary by Odenkirk, Blieden, the producers, composer, and Cinematographer; "The Frank International Film Festical" (a funny 15 minute skit); Scenes from the stage play Phyro-Giants!"; Trailers for "the Slaughter Rule", "Swimming", "Mule Skinner Blues", "Searching for Paradise", "the Hired Hand", "the Other Side of the Bed", "In This World", "Dopamine", and a promo for the Sundance film series DVD-ROM: Screenplay in PDF format

I love Bob Odenkirk cuz of Mr Show, Run Ronnie Run and other such hilarious ventures but... this movie is the most boring, pretentious piece of garbage i have ever seen. it is pointless and unoriginal, and no character is even worth remembering. The previously "worse dialog movie ever" was this classic piece of garbage i saw called "drinking games", but this tops even that. which is hard to do.All the points and topics in this movie are completely played out, clichéd topics that have been brutally done to death so many times in the past. nothing is original. and as i said before, characters are obnoxious, pretentious and the acting is bad. not horrible, but pretty bad.jack black is the only decent part. David Cross isn't even funny in this god awful, piece of cinematic garbage that i tried, and tried, and sat, and squirmed to sit through, because i wanted it to be good i really did. it made my suicide level reach boiling points.... no good.F-this film

What can I say? I loved it! Maybe its a guilty pleasure! At the beginning of the movie, I found the characters to be self-important, pseudo-intellectual jerks. I was surprised that Bob Odenkirk had anything to do with this movie about a bunch of hipsters pretentiously going on and on about their lives. How boring! But then all the sudden I was enjoying it! I wanted to know what happened to everyone! I think the genius of this movie is it takes unlikeable characters and makes us interested in them. I would go so far as to say I liked them! And I was happy to see that there was a resolution for our hero, Melvin, at the end. I was also impressed with how they handled a script with probably very little action. They just let the camera move at every possible chance! This could have been a really boring flick, but it just seems to hop along at a great brisk pace thanks to the editing, directing and camera movement. I can't wait to watch this movie again!