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After 8 minutes of the movie, Jack comes up with the idea of this dissapearing dog doo invention called "Vapoorize". He is testing and tesing and testing until it gets within 13 minutes of the movie and the invention works.

This film gave me the inpression of a comedy that was using 4th grade jokes to get around it. Thats why there was only a few things to laugh at with all of these jokes that make you wanna laugh at the writter and not the people.

It turns out that obviously, Jack gets this huge house and he has this horse and Ben kills it from being drunk on wine that Jack gave him, making this movie very predictable.

The only few things which I thought were pretty good were that the movie gave me a little bit of laughs and if Jack Black wasn't in it I probably wouldn't have seen it. When I saw "School of Rock" that movie was cleaver, funny, and exallent.

"Envy" was neither of those it was "Kind of cleaver", had "corny jokes", and was a pretty good movie once you think about it.

I think you should see it to find out what you think.

Pretty good!!!
I know so many people who did not like Envy. In fact, test audiences hated it so much, the film would have gone straight to video had it not been for the success of the totally overhyped School of Rock. But I enjoyed Envy. Granted, it wasn't Oscar material, but hey, I don't think Lord of the Rings was either. Moulin Rouge yes. Chicago definitely. But Envy is what it is, a cute, funny, enjoyable comedy with a great cast and a unique story. Perhaps that's why audiences were turned off. When's the last time anything unique was enjoyed by audiences? I think Envy is judged way too harshly and should be given a chance, especially for fans of Ben Stiller or Jack Black.This isn't their best movie, but it's a very fun one. Grade: B-

To envy one's friends is a no-no.
Ben Stiller is quoted as saying he never really felt like a funny guy or the life of the party. He's not in this movie, either. This was not a comedy.

It emphasized mental instability when one of the close neighbors made a lot of money on "just an idea" which he called an invention. It is not worthy of mention, as the very thought of such a thing is obnoxious.

Set in California, amidst electric towers and powerlines, traffic on the highway beside the ball park, and the golf course beside the desert, it features suburban life with the modern men carpooling to their respective jobs in a sandpaper factory. This reminded me of Murray Ohio in Lawrenceburg, TN where I once worked in the office and a try at assembling lawn mowers (didn't last long on the manual labor position). They also had mosquito tents out in their yards.

The clown pedestals (one smiling, other frowning) at the piano supper were laughable. A white horse named Corky played a big part in this story.

The character played by Stiller lost his cool over his jealousy about his best friend's good fortune and had a 'melt down.' He resented all the beautiful things the neighbors had added to their lives right next door. The planes taking off were a bit distracting.

At the bar, he encounters a pool bum freak played by Chris Walken who called himself a J. man standing for Jack. He represented something called Elmo Carp (thought that was a kind of huge fish). With their drinking, things changed big time and he had to come to terms with his life of lies and fear. As he cried in his beer, he was told to 'be satisfied with what you've got' and that 'a dreamer is not a focused person.'

The ballads sung by a mediocre singer contained some vulgarity and profanity. This whole thing reminded me of WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S. This is not a film for the family to share together. When I saw it, the male couples in the theater seemed to be the only ones to enjoy the hijinks.