Doogan Jones

Unlike other reviewers who miss the point, this movie is ALL about the PLOT. A famous comedic actor (Sandler as George Simmons) gets some bad medical news. The complexity of this emotional news is interwoven with some interesting insights into celebrity wealth and lifestyles and how despite all the trappings, inside there's still a person. Rogan is also great as a struggling comedian working in a Deli to pay the bills who ends up as Simmon's assistant. There are some very real moments tinted with Apatow's and Rogan's trademark dialogue pacing and raunchy jokes about male anatomy and the usual plethora of F-bombs. These last two issues to me are the only downside as unnecessarily superfluous to an otherwise well felt and acted emotional portrayal of celebrity when confronted with the real human vulnerabilities of love, friendship, loss, heartache, disease, death and desires, fundamental to the human condition that transcend money, wealth and celebrity. Well done setting the plot bar that high, but brought down by pervasive d_ck jokes.