Hall Pass in a Relationship

And another movie to remind audiences of how idiotic men can be sometimes. hall pass is the story of a pair of couples who have sort of reached an impasse in their relationships. The physical connection that brings people together has obviously faded away to forced date nights, picking up after kids and inconspicuously checking out other people. The movie does offer the valid question as to how do you prevent a marriage from falling apart? The film suggests sort of a preemptive strike. Allowing a man to experience the life they are supposedly missing before they completely abandon their current life for bachelorhood. But really the question is, when given the freedom can men pull off what they think about in extensive detail. So wives out of town and men left to their own devices, can someone cash in that hall pass and comeback to the relationship refreshed because of being allowed certain liberties. Or will it plant the belief that there really is something better out there.

This film is most definitely a comedy with Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis at the helm. And I go into films such as this looking forward to lots of laughs. And let me be clear that there are many. I especially appreciated the humor that found the little nuances of marriage and made light of them. Or the moments that magnified the differences between men and women. And then there was some light buddy humor with a group of men checking out women and embellishing exactly what they could pull off given a chance with someone other than their wives. But then there are moments when the humor went too far and I just cringed. At times it just went too far into gross territory and I had to just roll my eyes. And I don't want to come off as some uptight person who doesn't appreciate sexual humor, but truthfully the film would have been far more effective emphasizing the situational humor rather than the bathroom humor.

Giving two men a week off of marriage results in two women contemplating what their husbands are up to during that week. And that is where the real hiccups come in this deal. Wondering whether or not their husbands are cashing in, the wives wonder if perhaps they also have similar time off from their commitment. Ultimately, I think this is the point of the film. If you want to follow through with the perks of a hall pass, you have to consider that your partner could be doing the exact same and be prepared to deal with those consequences. But it seems the impact is strongest when a spouse considers their other end up to the same antics. Not being married I cannot necessarily say from experience, but it seems the challenge isn't your spouse giving you the week off, but being able to give yourself that freedom allowed by the deal. 

I have to give credit to the actors for completely embodying these cliche suburbanites. Wilson is typically cast as a more charismatic and charming character. But in this case he really became the doofus dad. Shirts tucked in, horrible dance moves and irrelevant culture references which seriously dated him. The stereotypes were obvious and over-exaggerated, but in that respect I appreciated the commitment to the cookie-cutter lifestyle.

The Reel Reviewer suggests hall pass as a typical guy movie that reely could have connected with the female audience but missed that mark a bit with some over-the-top male humor.

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