More than once, writer-director Jody Hill teases out the slippy, gray area between a subversive gross-out gag and something unsettlingly misogynist. He wants to push buttons, and he's talented enough to get away with it.

Much of the movie is just plain vicious. At best, it's sad and grotesque, rather than hilarious.

Writer-director Jody Hill thinks he's trying to push the envelope but doesn't know in which direction, or why.

A hit-and-miss curio.