The gags with Rudd's character are the most consistently amusing. Spoofing the infamous chainsaw scene in Scarface, Rudd's Ethan has his thugs use a weed-whacker to torture a victim ("Who brings a weed-whacker on a boat?"). Later, they have difficulty lighting a gasoline-doused informant on fire to teach him a lesson. The fact that I'm spending so much time on these special guest jokes should imply that the main cast doesn't fare as well. There's a lot of scatological humor, like when the crew stops for a pit stop on the side of the road and as Wiegel squats she announces to the camera, "I'm going number two."

There's a lot of that kind of explanation of the jokes here, and one of the first lessons comedians should learn is if you have to explain a joke, it probably wasn't that funny in the first place. The problem here is that some of them are funny, and the explanation just undermines them. Take when Dangle throws a plastic bottle against a wall, and it falls to the ground. That's funny. "I thought it would break," he says. Yes, that's the joke, thank you. This troupe makes a bad habit of hitting, pounding, and otherwise beating their jokes into the ground—not by repetition but by simple execution. There's an extended long shot of the face of the hotel room doorways in which they all walk around, basically trying to get laid. It should be a centerpiece, but it drags, with lots of cuts within it showing where the improvised dialogue fell flatter than it already is (that the scene ends in a masturbation fest should tell you how forced it is). Clementine spends the rest of the movie searching for the man whose face is tattooed on her breast as a result of that night, Wiegl and Raineesha beat-box to the "Cops" theme on their down time at the station, and it's just not funny.

It's not all that bad. There's a good gag involving an alligator in a pool, a drunk guy who thinks he's an expert on the animal, and a second gator, and Travis' description of Reno is admittedly priceless. Then again, there is a slow clap scene without any irony near the end of the movie, and I'm pretty sure I've seen people blow up a whale before. I'm just not a fan of the show, and Reno 911!: Miami doesn't help in the least to make me one.