Hot Rod is the type of comedy that will surely divide its audience. You either love this type of offbeat humor or you don’t. Fortunately, I do and because of that, I found Hot Rod to be absolutely hilarious. The film’s twisted plot features wannabe-daredevil Rod (SNL’s Andy Samberg), as he sets out to jump over 15 buses to raise money for his dying father’s (Ian McShane) operation... so that he can beat him up once he has recovered. In his first movie, Samberg unleashes a bizarrely unique brand of comedy that is best described as a hybrid between the slapstick of early Adam Sandler films and Will Ferrel’s signature off-the-wall schtick. The film is loaded with jokes, and most of them register with surprising effectiveness. Watching the film, it’s as if the studio gave Samberg and his friends a bag of cash and a camera crew and told them to shoot anything they wanted. The result is a refreshingly loose, unpredictable, and madcap comedy that actually delivers on its preposterous premise. Although it’s unlikely that Hot Rod will make much of a splash at the box office (the film is on track to make a paltry $5 million on its opening weekend), it’s the type of film that will undoubtedly find its audience on home video and is destined to play in college dorm rooms for years to come.