Absolutely Garbage

First let me start by saying i think Terry Jones is a genius and most of his directorial works and all his Monty Python works are amongst the best that have ever been produced in their genres.

However this film is one of the most unfunny, and above all terribly written films ive seen. Maybe for people under the age of twelve who think walking poo and a talking dog are hilarious concepts.

I think there are two main problems. Firstly, The aliens give him this unbelievable gift of this power in his hand, yet its insane that it doesn't ever truly do what he wants it to do. I'm afraid the comedy returns on this flaw are not worth it. How many times can you see the same joke over and over and over again, where the hand gets it wrong by taking the literal translation of what he says over what his mind is actually asking for. It becomes insanely tedious and not funny.

Secondly,at the start of the film he seems like a reasonably intelligent guy. Yet he uses the power like someone with an iq of about seventy would use it. He says the stupidest things at the most ridiculous times.Its just not funny

Would a guy like that get that girl to worship his friend. You'd say "love" not "worship". But even after he said that he didn't strike me as the type of guy that would just leave this innocent girl in that condition. And then when his friend eventually asks him to fix it, he says "i haven't got time". WTF! you just wave your hand and fix it. Same goes with the dog and with Kate Beckinsale hearing the dog. You'd just wave your hand and fix it.

After he shows his friend the skeleton, rather than saying "go back to how you were" he says to the skeleton " Jump out of the window". Why would anyone say that?

Why would anyone say make the weather like in LA rather than make it a nice sunny day. Oh hilarious that it was dark for 5 seconds.

Im sure people who enjoyed the move will say im being pedantic, but the main characters stupidity and the ineptness of the power made it impossible to enjoy. Get back to working with Edgar Wright please Mr Pegg.