Sometimes, the grass isn’t always greener…
When Rick (Owen Wilson) is given a “Hall Pass” from his wife Maggie (Jenna Fischer), he thinks he is the luckiest guy ever!! Now he is free to live the life of a swinging bachelor for a whole week. Maggie took the kids to her parent’s house, so no wife, no kids, and no responsibilities!! He can go out and score with any chick he wants.
Let’s back up a bit, shall we?? Rick and Maggie are a (mostly) happily-married couple with three children. They’ve been together forever, but sometimes relationships have unhappy patches, as theirs is in now. Maggie feels taken for granted, and when she overhears Rick and his friends, including best friend Fred (Jason Sudeikis) debating how much they will pay for one “freebie” (a sexual encounter with someone other than their wives, and the wife is guaranteed to never find out), she later decides to let him have his freebie.
So Rick is free, and then Fred’s wife Grace (Christina Applegate, who is awesome by the way, I just realized this earlier as I watched “Don’t Tell Mom the Baby-sitter’s Dead” for about the 50th time) decides to give Fred a Hall Pass too. She joins Maggie and her kids, and the men are free!! However, things don’t always go as planned. I don’t want to give too much away, but let’s just say on the first night of freedom the men were calling it a night at about 9:30.
Oh, and remember, a Hall Pass goes both ways, as Maggie and Grace soon realize. So guys, you may be free but you wives are too!!!
There were definitely some zany situations in this movie, including: public masturbation, pot brownies consumed on a golf course (humorous complications ensue), explosive diarrhea, excessive sexual discussion (and hand gestures) when you think nobody is around but really EVERYONE in the house is watching and listening to you, and a good lesson -don’t fall asleep for hours in a hot tub, because your legs may go numb and you may need to be rescued by a naked man and his schlong may accidentally be in your face.
Overall this was a fun movie. The story was good and so was the acting. I was however distracted by the few characters that had majorly bad and obvious “fake bake” (aka fake tans). I didn’t understand why they needed that.
Warning: this one is NOT for the kids. While there were some outrageously funny situations, there was also full-frontal male nudity, one topless woman, and very naughty language.
