The ones who are paid a fortune to stay in touch with their inner children and keep us in touch with ours, by spoon-feeding us infantile comedies and superhero movies?
The feverish libidos wreaking emotional havoc in Oskar Roehler's infantile sex comedy "Agnes and His Brothers" are a quintessentially Germanic mixture of kinky, obsessive and sentimental.
Or the surreal moments of audience involvement: at one point, a character shines a spotlight on one young woman, only to begin pointing and laughing at her? We cannot, unfortunately, begin with the dancing, which is generally strong, because the balance between it and infantile, broad physical comedy sways distressingly in favor of the comedy.
Apatow has never strayed far from the infantile sources of comedy in his movies, but this time he outperforms at the potty.
It's party time, and the movie is wild and crude without being mean — it's a comedy of infantile regression, "Animal House" for grownups.
That is the simplest reason that the content of so many big-studio movies — fantasy, animation, inspirational sports stories, dumb-guy comedies — seems infantile and repetitive through so much of the year.
A dark comedy about an infantile 27-year-old who wants his best friend from high school back.
Part of the difficulty in discussing whether an attempt at humour is edgy or just infantile is that reactions to comedy are subjective – a fact that is oddly often forgotten by fans and critics.
It's not terrible – the 16% rating from RottenTomatoes.com pitched things a little low, and the 30 or so satisfying belly laughs I chalked up suggested something more in the mid-range, C-plus or B-minus even, though my shameful weakness for infantile gross-out sci-fi comedies with graphic violence should be factored in.
