Review | Netflix movie review: Me Time – Kevin Hart, Mark Wahlberg lose themselves in frat-boy comedy with exceptionally lazy scripting
- Two childhood friends – a stay-at-home dad and a carefree bachelor – reunite for a weekend of debauchery ending in a birthday celebration in the desert
- Kevin Hart and Mark Wahlberg bring the star power to this dull film, but their names aren’t big enough to carry it
1/5 stars
The phenomenal rise of Kevin Hart, from stand-up comic to bona fide Hollywood star, has been aided by a number of savvy on-screen team-ups with established leading men.
Will Ferrell and Dwayne Johnson are just two box office heavyweights who have paired up with Hart to huge commercial success.
While his latest outing premieres on Netflix rather than in cinemas, Me Time continues this same strategy, as the diminutive funny man is partnered with the ever-popular Mark Wahlberg.
The duo play estranged childhood friends who are reunited for a hedonistic weekend of escalating mayhem, after Hart’s highly strung stay-at-home dad is given some time away from his career-driven wife, Maya (Regina Hall), and their two children.
What follows is a predictable parade of puerile buffoonery, akin to the frat-boy comedies of Todd Phillips (Old School, The Hangover). The loose, lazy scripting from writer-director John Hamburg too often relies on Hart and Wahlberg to keep the fun going, rather than generate genuine laughs from actual jokes.
