Trailer deconstruction: Hall Pass

First, watch this trailer, the latest film from the Farrelly brothers...


So can anyone else see some fundamental flaws in the set-up and storytelling here? You begin with an average married guy getting caught checking out another woman. Wife gets frustrated and opts to give him a 'hall pass' so he can be with whoever he wants for a week without consequences. OK, fine. It's not the most realistic scenario, but I'm with the premise so far. We then get into the bulk of the trailer where we see how the guy uses his hall pass and it goes completely against convention. If we're to believe that a wife would get so frustrated as to offer such a pass, the guy must frequently have a wandering eye. Yet, in the scenes of him living the single life again, he hardly interacts with women and when he does, it appears he's never talked to a woman before in his life. These two things just don't add up, regardless if the scenes are funny or not, which admittedly some are.

Furthermore, let's do a reality check here. The wives of the two married guys in this film (Owen Wilson and SNL's Jason Sudekis) are The Office's Jenna Fischer and Christina Applegate. This prompts a couple of questions: 1) Why would you ever have a wandering if you were married to either one of those two smoking hot women? and 2) How did they ever marry those beautiful women in the first place given their ineptitude around women that we see them display in this trailer.

Now maybe I am being too harsh and the trailer is misleading in some way of the film's actual narrative, but I would guess not. To me, it just seems like lazy Hollywood writing that eschews reality and instead cobbles together a handful of jokes and gags without any consideration for the premise or if it reflects real life.