The Movie

The Long Weekend is a generic comedy film produced in Canada. It was filmed in 2004 and released in the United States in 2006. The release was limited and chances are you never had the opportunity to see it. And well, if you missed it, you did not miss out on much. The Long Weekend comes off as a poor attempt with far too much crude humor that will leave you wishing you were doing something else.

The story is about two brothers, Ed (Brendan Fehr) and Cooper Waxman (Chris Klein). They are polar opposites of each other. Since an early age, Ed loved to make home made movies. As a kid he filmed anything and everything. When he grew up, he never stopped viewing life from behind a camera. Cooper, on the other hand, lived life to the fullest. As adults, Ed settled down with his girlfriend Cathy and had a successful career as an advertising executive. Cooper became a not-very-serious actor who spent more time bedding hot women than going to auditions.

When the movie begins, Ed's life is turned upside down. He comes home from work and finds Cathy in bed with his best friend from college. Following his very meek personality, he says they can work it out. Cathy has other plans and leaves him. The breakup affects Ed's quality of work and after losing several big accounts, he is fired. Ed manages to get one last chance to save his job if he can retain a big account. He swears to dedicate the entire, long weekend to create the perfect ad campaign. Unfortunately, his brother Cooper has different plans for them.

It has been a year since Ed and Cathy broke up and Cooper is determined to get his brother's social life back on track. Cooper's goal is to get him laid. From here, the brothers go on one crazy situation after the other with Ed's bad luck with women ruining his chances as Cooper's nonchalant personality pushes him the wrong way. Everything goes wrong from Ed blowing it with a hot and easy girl to getting arrested for unintentionally propositioning a prostitute to pooping in a dirty bathroom with no toilet paper. The situations are over-the-top and full of dirty sex jokes with an undercarriage of piss and fart style humor. Of course, everything works out for the best -- Ed turns his life around and Cooper tries to be more serious in his life.

What works for the movie is very little. The humor relies too much on generic piss and fart jokes. While in some movies of this caliber work, The Long Weekend's jokes are poorly written and get tiresome quickly. The situations the characters get into are also pretty ridiculous and hard to appreciate with the poor comedy. The icing on the cake is the performances, which are simply terrible. Klein attempts to fill a role similar to the overly perverted American Pie character Steven Stilfer (Seann William Scott). While Klein makes a good asshole, he doesn't do much beyond it. His outrageous and outlandish character just doesn't have the same natural humor or appeal Stilfer had in the first American Pie movie.

Overall, The Long Weekend is a long, tiresome movie that fails to deliver rich comedy. Instead, it is full of cliched, raunchy humor that does not attain a comical level. There is little, if anything at all, that makes this movie appealing. For those looking for a good hearty laugh, look elsewhere. The Long Weekend is a bore.

The DVD

Video:
The video is given in an anamorphic 1.78:1 ratio widescreen color. The picture quality is pretty good. It suffers from a grain, which is mostly noticeable during darker scenes. All in all, detail remains sharp and clear. The picture should look relatively good in larger sets.

Audio:
The primary audio track is given in English 5.1 Dolby digital surround sound. There is also an English 2.0 Dolby digital stereo sound track. The 5.1 track is overkill. There is very little use of the surround sound capability with most activity in the forward channels. As for the quality, the 5.1 track offers dialogue that is easy to hear and music that sounds rich. However, the stereo track is more than sufficient for the feature's needs.

There are also subtitles included in English and Spanish, and support for closed captioning.

Extras:
There are no extras included with this DVD release. However, there are trailers for Dorm Daze 2: College at Sea, Van Wilder: Go Wilder Edition, and Surf School.

Final Thoughts:
The Long Weekend is a movie about two brothers. One has been in a sexual/romantic slump that has affected every other aspect of his life. His playboy brother tries to fix things by getting him laid. The storyline follows the brothers and the efforts of one to get the other to have sex with a hot woman. Their adventures include dates, bars, prison, dirty bathrooms, occasional naked girls, and a variety of absurd situations. As an overall film, it is dull and tiresome. Skip it.