Super Troopers (2001)
The Immature Movie: A tale of goofing-off in the workplace that seems to split audiences straight down the middle. Some love it, some hate it…which side of the fence you fall on probably depends on your tolerance for slapstick. God knows there’s enough of it on show here…
Crudest Moment: The troopers stumble upon a covert union between man and bear: “Bear…bearfucker? Do you need assistance?”
Mental Age: It’s the movie equivalent of a bored twentysomething. Everyone regresses when they’re stuck in the 9 to 5…
Spaceballs (1987)
The Immature Movie: Sci-fi spoofery from Mel Brooks which isn’t quite as dreadful as Dracula: Dead And Loving It , nor anything like as witty as Blazing Saddles . When the corpulent alien character is called Pizza The Hutt, you should have some idea of what you’re in for.
Crudest Moment: The constant stream of dick jokes involving Rick Moranis’ Dark Helmet begin to wear thin long before the credits roll. “I bet she gives great helmet!” Aaaaaaah….
Mental Age: Some of the “puns” on show look as though they’ve been crayoned onto the script by a precocious toddler. Yoghurt as Yoda, anyone? No?
The Love Guru (2008)
The Immature Movie: Mike Myers takes the carcass of Austin Powers and attempts to reanimate it with some new-age mysticism. Needless to say, the results are less than groovy.
Crudest Moment: The fact that Ben Kingsley ever consented to play a character named Tugginmypudha makes us want to weep.
Mental Age: 5. Sample joke: “I’d like an alligator soup, and make it snappy.” Dear Lord…
Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
The Immature Movie: Argh, yet another shoddy spoof movie, this time taking a very loose aim at American Pie and its myriad imitators. With a wealth of chronically derivative teen movies already on the market, why on earth would you waste your cash on this tripe?
Crudest Moment: A toilet comes crashing through a classroom ceiling, spraying the kids with a torrent of liquid shit. Lovely.
Mental Age: The cast might be playing 17 and 18-year-olds but the gags are aimed at an audience a good five years younger….
The Ringer (2005)
The Immature Movie: After years of Jackass -based toilet humour, Johnny Knoxville attempts to offend an entirely new audience with this staggeringly ill-judged comedy about an able-bodied man competing at the Special Olympics.
Crudest Moment: Knoxville’s lunch-date with Katherine Heigl in which he proceeds to cover himself with his food. As the disabled are wont to do, obviously…
Mental Age: Whilst a 4-year-old might be able to get away with impersonating the disabled, a grown man finds himself on distinctly dodgy ground!
The Boat That Rocked (2009)
The Immature Movie: Richard Curtis’s gratingly awful '60s swingathon is neither as cool nor as funny as it thinks it is, with a talented comic wasted on bouts of “groovy” dad-dancing and witless innuendo. Give it a wide berth.
Crudest Moment: The truly sinister bed-trick in which Nick Frost allows virgin Tom Sturridge to take his place in a bedroom liaison with an unsuspecting young girl. Genuinely creepy!
Mental Age: Presumably only a desperately horny 16-year-old could fail to see the problem of the above deception. What’s Richard Curtis’s excuse?
Superbad (2007)
The Immature Movie: Various members of the Apatow ensemble curse, drink and smoke their way through this riotously funny high-school comedy. Just when you thought gross-out humour was dead, along comes the period-blood dance sequence…
Crudest Moment: Either the aforementioned menstrual moment, or the compilation of hand-drawn dicks that accompanies the end credits.
Mental Age: Well, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg began writing the script when they were just 13, and had a first draft knocked together by 15, so 15 it is!
Nacho Libre (2006)
The Immature Movie: Jack Black gets his belly out for this spandex-clad slapstick extravaganza, starring as titular wrestling priest Nacho Libre. Every bit as daft as it sounds.
Crudest Moment: Not so much crude as basic, most of the film’s biggest laughs rely on Jack Black looking ridiculous in a variety of OTT ring attire. Which, in fairness, he does very well.
Mental Age: 15. It’s not a mean spirited film by any means, but it pootles along at the same sort of lacklustre pace as a teenager hauling themselves out of bed. It’s all well and good aiming a movie at slackers, but you’d hope for a bit more vigour from the filmmakers themselves!
Mallrats (1995)
The Immature Movie: Kevin Smith’s View Askewniverse films are all fairly crass (charmingly so in the case of Clerks and Chasing Amy ), but Mallrats is probably the dopiest of the bunch. From Ben Affleck’s anally-fixated jock, to the repeated changing-room sight gags, this is broad to say the least!
Crudest Moment: The stinkpalm meets chocolate-covered pretzel incident. Never fails to turn the stomach.
Mental Age: 14. After the first-job despair of Clerks , this one is something of a regression to the mall-haunting boredom of early adolescence.
Harold & Kumar Get The Munchies (2004)
The Immature Movie: Danny Leiner follows up Dude, Where’s My Car? with this equally stupid, but vastly funnier stoner movie about a pair of slackers looking to track down a certain brand of burger. They have the munchies you see…
Crudest Moment: The mind-blowingly terrible “battleshits” scene. One that should have found its way onto the cutting room floor…
Mental Age: Don’t let Harold’s career as an investment banker fool you…this is teenage nonsense, pure and simple!
