SnoopyStyle Wayne LeFessier (Steve Zahn), J.D. McNugent (Jack Black), and Darren Silverman (Jason Biggs) are childhood best friends Neil Diamond fanatics. Wayne was the third string high school quarterback. J.D. was the idiot mascot. Darren was a hopelessly romantic male cheerleader pining for fellow cheerleader Sandy (Amanda Detmer). Psychologist Judith (Amanda Peet) is bitchy and has Darren wrapped around her finger. She forbids him from hanging with his two loser friends. In desperation, they kidnap her to stop their wedding. Sandy comes back into their lives. She lost her love Luigi in a trapeze accident and is going into the nunnery.It's surprising that these three comedy stars couldn't do better. Amanda Peet is not the best at playing the bitch. That's one of its big problems. She doesn't really give the audience permission to root for the two idiots. The Steve Zahn, Jack Black duo have some good bumbling fun. Eventually Peet does get angry enough to be funny. Director Dennis Dugan had made a couple of Adam Sandler movies before this and this has very similar sensibilities. Sadly he has continued to follow Adam Sandler as they both slide into the comedy wilderness.

leplatypus As a Frenchman, i can find easily a lot of comedies that makes me laugh (those with De Funes, Youn, ...). Abroard, i think to "Mr. Bean" (english) and i can find also a real funny American show ("Married with children"). But, right now, to find American movies where i laugh a lot is difficult except maybe those with Chevy Chase and this one! I don't say here that American movies don't make me laugh: i just say that they can't make me laugh all along. So this one is a little surprise and i thank Amanda for her choice. In this movie, she plays a sexy bad girl, which are two new things for her. She is surrounded by an excellent cast that leaves for one time the support roles for the big stage (Zahn, Detmer and Ermey). The movie is great because it builds upon a truth: what happen to friends when one got married? Again, i don't think this idea has been used a lot of times and here, it is played with genius: the script is silly but never fails into craziness in spite of it's not easy to walk on this thin line. In addition, the action takes places in a sweet town at the ocean so the exterior are refreshing. Thus, you can believe me: after the good laughs at the start, you will keep your smile for another hour!

TheUnknown837-1 I was introduced to "Saving Silverman" by the same two friends of mine who talked me into watching that abysmally bad piece of garbage "Van Wilder," a picture whose appeal I will never comprehend as long as I live. But "Van Wilder" is better than "Saving Silverman" for one fundamental reason. With "Van Wilder" I was mostly bored out of my mind. "Saving Silverman", by contrast, spat in my face with its abundance of senseless profanity, sickening concepts of humor, and offensive misogyny even though it's supposed to be about friendship and true love. I saw this picture many, many years ago and I can still recollect to this day sitting there with a gaping mouth, my eyes glued to the screen only to see just how much more offensive and morally mordacious it could get.The movie's stars are Steve Zahn and Jack Black, two people who I think show talent but are wasted here, as two of a longtime threesome friendship. The third man of their group is Jason Biggs, playing a lovesick dweeb of a loser (that means he's pathetic) who thinks he's found the love of his life in a tenaciously autocratic woman played by Amanda Peet. When Biggs's high school crush (Amanda Detner) steps into the picture, Zahn and Black decide to try and break Peet from Biggs by any means necessary and reunite him with his former love.In theory, this could have been more than efficient. Yes, I like the idea of "Saving Silverman." Two friends are shut off from their buddy by a tyrannizing lover and try to save him. Yes, I even like the *idea* of them kidnapping her as effort to save him. Yes, I liked the concept. What I didn't like - what I hated - was the tasteless, astoundingly bad methods that the screenwriters and director Dennis Dugan decided to go with. The most harmless 'humor' in this picture is people getting beat up, slapped around, and getting attacked by raccoons. Typically boring routine slapstick. That's dull, but harmless. Insulting are the lack of taste in the satire of nuns (and overused excuse for humor), the tiresome profanity, and the always tiresome gags about closet homosexuals. The fact that they are still using that, nine years later in "The Other Guys" gives me little hope for modern-day slapsticks. I'll take Joe E. Brown or Jerry Lewis over this any day. These jokes here are not only not funny, but a little sickening, as is that visually disgusting moment where Jason Biggs has plastic surgery on his hindquarters. Yuck!What I also found morally repugnant was the movie's look toward women. I already mentioned the unfavorable approach on profanity-spitting, macho nuns. Let's talk about how the two Amandas are presented. The two central female characters in the picture. One is a despicable tyrant and the other is portrayed as a slattern. A goodhearted slattern, but a slattern nonetheless. Amanda Peet having nothing to do but be vicious and chew up her scenes and Amanda Detner being clothed in the thinnest of clothing and yet at the same time, be trying to achieve chastity by becoming a sister. Why is it, I ask that women are treated a lot in modern-day comedies as (insert word for female dogs) or sluts? Can't they be respectable? They're actually treated with less dignity than the male stars. And I couldn't stand their characters, either.Now "Saving Silverman" did hold my attention, because I had a strong reaction to what I saw. But reactions go both ways. Positive and negative. I had an intensely strong negative reaction to his picture and I was thunderstruck at just how offensively dumb it could get. It's a good idea with a good cast that should have been utilized with a good script. The only element I found interesting was R. Lee Emery's performance as the former coach of the three dummies. It's better for a movie to be forgettably bad than memorably bad. This is the latter. It's been years and I can still taste the bitter detestation.

btm1 Sometimes a silly movie is really funny. This is one of those.Jack Black is perfect as J.D., a well-meaning but moronic slob. Steve Zahn is great as his slightly brighter buddy, Wayne. Darren Silverman (Jason Biggs), the title character and the third member of the trio of losers who've had a bond and a band (Neil Diamond tribute band) since grade school.Although the title character, and the man who the plot spins about, Silverman is seldom in the thick of the fun. That is provided by the antics of his two buddies in trying to save him from Judith (Amanda Peet), a successful educated women who finds Silverman convenient to have around after feigning interest in him to fend off a magician clumsily trying to hit on her. Their relationship is that of female domination of a willingly submissive male, although overt use of that terminology would ruin the movie. The domination includes Judith denying Darren sexual favors but demanding it from him.Darren's true "one and only" love is Sandy (Amanda Detmer), who left town with her family while in grade school, but moves back shortly after Darren gets besotted by Judith. Sandy is a novitiate who is to take her vows in a week.