Paul Rudd and Jason Segal are teaming up for with the writer/director of Along Came Polly to deliver another romantic comedy. Or rather a buddy comedy which kind of treats finding a friends like it's similar to dating? Anyway, the premise is that Paul Rudd is getting married, has no male friends, and has to find a best man for his wedding. A very strange idea especially since the character of Rudd's brother (the obvious choice of best man) is helping lead the best man search.

Before I go further. Here are the trailers.

Overlooking the odd premise, this movie also seems to be falling deeper into the sinkhole that is the red band/Cursing is Comedy phenomenon. If you watch the two trailers below, you'll notice that they are almost identical. One has swears removed, the other has more swears, more shots of dogs pooping, and only one actually new element (the oral sex issue). In some cases, the red band trailer extends scenes to include swears which seems to play into the recent comedic fad of taking a questionably funny joke and cursing a lot in it to make it funny.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of low brow humor (the script I'm working on now is filled with it) and think that a well-placed swear can make a world of difference (the only good part of Wanted was hearing Morgan Freeman say, "Somebody shoot this MOTHER FUCKER!"). But even I think that it's starting to get a bit out of hand.

The bigger issue, though, is that the trailers have different versions of scenes. The common logic behind red band trailers is that they include scenes that were too raunchy to put in the all audiences trailer. But this film has the exact same scenes, just raunchier versions.  The opening of the first trailer has the Edited for TV version with Rashida Jones's friends saying "sex" and "lock that stud down". The red band has the raunchier version with "fucked" and "lock that tongue down" (a cunnilngus reference, if you haven't watched the trailers) The question, of course, is which version am I going to see? Did they alter the movie to be able to get an All Audience Preview or did they add some stuff in order to get the raunchier Red Band?

One of these trailers is selling a movie that is different from the one people are expecting. I'd have to guess that it's the first trailer which means a lot of people could be waltzing into a friendly little comedy and getting inundated with gross-out, if-I-curse-it's-funny humor. I know that a lot of this isn't really new but as I said before, it's starting to get out of hand. Or as I'd say in my red band version, this goddamn shit's getting out of mother fucking hand.