Well, Mike and Dave need much more than wedding dates.  Mike (Adam Devine) and Dave (Zac Efron) are brothers whose business it is to sell liquor and wreck family events.  In this sweet but crude comedy Mike and Dave are grown-up goofs who, of course, finally mature enough to provide a happy ending — after wrecking their sister’s wedding.  This type of thing is the new form of sublime comedy; in the old days it would have been Tony Curtis and Jerry Lewis — only without the constant profanity, the sexual crudities and female characters  who disgrace themselves at every opportunity.

Jake Szymanski’s film makes me feel like an old fuddy-duddy.  I felt bad for these characters.  It bothered me when Alice (Anna Kendrick), one of the wedding dates, breaks out the Ecstasy because she’s mildly bummed about her own failed wedding.  I didn’t laugh when the bride to be is given the “special treatment” by her masseuse, absurd as it is.  Alice and Tatiana (Aubrey Plaza) are charmingly hot, yet all they do is talk about sex; the other women are much more provocative.  The brothers are dumber than dirt, yet we’re supposed to root for them to find love and make something of themselves.  I was kinda hoping they and their dates would all be arrested.

I understand that at 55, I am not the target audience for this film.  But do younger people really find this stuff amusing?  It’s obnoxious and empty, not funny or sexy.  Zac Efron seems to be making raunchy comedies his career path, what with the Neighbors movies (which I have not seen) and Dirty Grandpa (which I did).  He could be a serious actor, instead of wasting his time with this crap.  Adam Devine seems like he belongs in this muck, but not Efron.  Or Kendrick.  This movie is ostensibly a comedy, but all it delivered to me was sadness.  Maybe I really am an old fuddy-duddy after all.  ☆ 1/2.  19 July 2016.