Today’s quick review: Game Over, Man!. Alexxx (Adam DeVine), Darren (Anders Holm), and Joel (Blake Anderson) are three underachieving housekeepers at a luxury hotel. When Bey Awadi of Tunisia (Utkarsh Ambudkar) visits the hotel for a party, they see it as an opportunity to get funding for their planned video game. But Conrad (Neal McDonough) and his terrorists take the Bey and his guests hostage, the trio become the hostages’ only hope for survival.
Game Over, Man! is a raunchy comedy that spoofs action thrillers like Die Hard. Alexxx, Darren, and Joel make an unlikely trio of heroes, dim-witted cleaners who spend their days slacking, taking drugs, and daydreaming about wealth. Their bumbling interactions, the terrorists’ mishaps, and bursts of extreme violence form the bulk of the movie’s humor. However, its explicit content and lowbrow humor greatly limit its appeal.
How much you enjoy Game Over, Man! will depend heavily on your taste. The jokes include drug use, gory slapstick, and explicit sexual content. The film does manage a few funny moments, particularly on the occasions when the lead trio’s misguided ingenuity pays off. But by and large, Game Over, Man! has unlikable characters and crude punchlines. Its name is also misleading: its video game influences only appear in one or two places.
Fans of comedies like Your Highness or This Is the End will get the most out of Game Over, Man!. The film is a partial success that hits the target it aims at, but it has only niche appeal and has little to recommend it over other comedies. Most viewers would be better off with a Guy Ritchie crime comedy for punchier humor and a richer story, or else a flat-out action parody like Hot Shots! Part Deux.
5.5 out of 10 on IMDB. I give it a 5.0 for crude but occasionally funny comedy.