Review: Funny People

A film of two halves, the first is more traditional Apatow fair, with plenty of the lewd, semi-improvised banter that you've come to expect from the likes of Rogen and Jonah Hill laced between the story of Adam Sandler's George Simmons coming to terms with being diagnosed with a seemingly terminal disease.

The second half shifts gears with mixed results, whilst Eric Bana may be the highlight of the whole movie, stealing every scene he's in as OTT as Aussie George, the flip side of this is far too much screen time is given over to the Apatow offspring for no apparent reason.

Getting rid of the kids messing about, along with the pointless Ira love interest storyline would've been of a huge benefit to the film, as at two and a half hours the film suffers for its extended run time, seemingly just meandering about for too long before just kind of petering out at the end.

This probably best caught on DVD, if only for the potential chance to see more of the fake films of Simmons and Schwartzmaan starring Yo Teach! - the greatest show never to air on Trouble.