Doing little more than offered by the trailer, Mike And Dave... is yet another underpowered 'raunchy' comedy, for which the corpsing-laden outtakes played in the end credits are mostly the funniest aspect of the movie. The scenarios are predictable, the writing thin, with swearing and patchily-successful improvisation desperately replacing wit. Aubrey Plaza powers through this movie and completely owns it, Adam Devine mostly tries too hard and strains to convince, and Anna Kendrick and Zac Efron do what they do reliably and mostly effectively (and this movie contains an even more-contrived-than-usual reason for Efron to remove his shirt). Mike And Dave... is what it is, it plays to its target audience adequately, and it will come and go without leaving much of an impression.
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