The Late Bloomer

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Good movie!

source: The Late Bloomer

The movie gives it to you straight. From the opening when there is quite a rude conversation (or rather horny one) you should know what to expect. The dialog is not safe for work - unless your job is to listen to those people telling you about their sex addiction and you have to help them. And he is cool as ice. The first scene alone some might question his non-reaction especially those in puberty but also others. Other than that there is nudity and as already hinted at swearing. But there is also a sweet side. While the mixture is not always working the movie sort of works around those scenes. Not perfect by a long shot, but with an engaging cast and some funny dialog (if you are not offended easily of course) this can be entertaining to watch

I don't really get why this movie got so much hate. I almost didn't watch it because of all the negative reviews. I'm not a huge fan of overly stupid humor, but I found this to be quite funny. I compare it to Role Models for the level of humor. I saw at least one other reviewer state that the supporting cast was excellent, and it truly was. It was worth the watch alone for the lead's two best friends. An easy watch, not long or tedious, funny dialogue and banter, some good cameos and supporting cast. IMDB doesn't let me do half star ratings but a solid 6.5/10 for me.

This is a perfect movie for chilling and having a good laugh to the dumb jokes.

This movie had some great elements going for it; for instance, the premise is hilarious. Some members of the cast are stellar actors but the comedy falls flat most of the time due mainly to the writing, editing and direction. The main actor was a poor choice. He's just not funny and you can tell that he's acting most of the time. Sometimes he's perfectly awkward but most of the time it just doesn't work.

This movie was funny and cute and overall pretty good

I wanted to give it 1 star but decided that J.K. Simmon's appearance was worth another star - he does a fine job as the father. I also like Maria Bello but her character as the mother was just too strange to like (some kind of new age hippie, and a later scene with her boy was just creepy). As another viewer said, I was expecting this kind of movie to be more like 'American Pie' - even something like 'The 40 Year Old Virgin' would have been nice, but Pollak seemed to get stranded between those and some stupid coming-of-age teenage flick. Based on the promising opening, I got fooled into watching the rest of this pedestrian comedy that really, really tried to get it up but at the end tried too 'hard' and just became a flaccid mess - pun intended. His friends were at the level of children and it was hard to believe a doctor would still be friends with such tools, much less let them have free access to his apartment. Here's a clue your friend is stupid: if all he ever talks about is his boner, then he's stupid. And I don't know about what kind of friends other guys have but I personally have never had any that openly talk about masturbating all the time - that's ridiculous. We certainly do it but we don't advertise it to everyone like a neon billboard at a *'s joint! I think I snickered once or twice during the movie, and I was hoping for the last third of the movie to redeem the rest of it and I was sorely mistaken. I don't watch chick flicks and thought this was safely out of that category and I am sad to say it isn't. At least for chicks who are profane and enjoy stupid dick jokes. Kevin Pollak - go back to acting, playing poker and doing that great Christopher Walken imitation because this movie was just an oddball, nothing really hung together (another pun). At least it didn't have 'coming' attractions, which was a plus (my final pun). Skip it and spend the time doing something more enjoyable - like having sex. :-)

Okay, I really kinda like Bobby Flay, but I bet he didn't read the script for this "film" before agreeing to be in it! At one point (several points, really) I actually caught myself shaking my head at the plot line; I can't determine if this movie was written by boys who were in the throes of puberty (in which case it should've been FUNNIER, and faster-moving as well) or just adults who have seriously deficient senses of humor. For some reference, I thought Hot Tub Time Machine was a masterpiece, and Clerks was brilliant. So I can completely "get" the young-adult humor/angst genre. How dreck like this gets financed and produced is beyond me. Just not entertaining, and sloooow to boot!