Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Buddy Games review – a chest-thumping, ball-breaking macho mashup

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Semen cocktails, broken testicles and dancefloor laxatives are among myriad reasons to avoid this grim grossout comedy

Licking a toilet brush would supply a taste less unpleasant than watching this grim comedy, a buddy gross-out movie that’s unfunny and offensive in equal measures. Blandly rugged actor Josh Duhamel writes, directs and stars in the story of a group of middle-aged friends who compete in an annual tournament of chest-thumping machismo. Every summer, the bros do battle in contests involving giant obstacle courses, mud pits, beer bongs and competitive hotdog-eating – with a bit of male bonding in the evening, as they drunkenly dangle their scrotums in each other’s faces.

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