![]() His longtime friends include the alpha male Shelly (Dan Bakkedahl), who is a multiple champion of the annual Buddy Games the incompetent chiropractor Doc (Kevin Dillon) struggling actor Durf (Dax Shepard), and the shrill and repulsive Bender (Nick Swardson), who manages to be the most abhorrent individual of this rotten bunch. ![]() ![]() Now comes the would-be comedy “Buddy Games.” The usually likable and reliable Josh Duhamel is the prime culprit, as he directed, co-wrote and stars in this horrific trainwreck about a bunch of howling, yammering, chest-thumping idiots who convene every year to compete in “Jackass”-level games that involve inflicting pain on one another, unpleasant bodily functions and of course the always hilarious testicle-based “humor.” These middle-aged, self-absorbed clowns are so repugnant and uninteresting and small-minded and awful, they make the gang from “Tag” look like the Knights of the Round Table.īut hey, if you want to see a movie where the story is set in motion by an incident where a paintball pierces a man’s scrotum, step right up.ĭuhamel’s Bob, known by his pals as “The Bobfather,” is a successful businessman with a beautiful and loving girlfriend named Tiff (Olivia Munn). Rated R (for strong crude sexual content and language throughout, some graphic nudity, drug use and brief violence). Saban Films and Paramount Home Entertainment present a film directed by Josh Duhamel and written by Duhamel, Bob Schwartz and Jude Weng.
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