Sometimes you just need a break. In most things in life, this actually holds true. Sometimes you just want to get away from anything–work, family, various stresses, and do those things you’ve always wanted to do, even if you may find out later that you don’t really enjoy them. That’s just what we’ll be tackling with Hall Pass, a copy of which the folks out at Warner Brothers sent out for us to review (and interestingly, part of a giveaway my able cohort Kenna is running right now).

Rick and Fred, two long-time best friends, aren’t happy with their lives, or their wives, and wish they were back out living it up as single guys have been known to do. Their wives, both out of sympathy and a desperate need to shut their hubbies up, hand them what they call a “hall pass” in which the guys get a full week of freedom from the marriage. No obligations, no grudges held, no questions asked. “Adultery” doesn’t even factor in, at least as far as the ladies are concerned. But when the guys get the chance they’ve been waiting for, what they may discover while taking their chance is a lot different than they were expecting.

This is actually a Farrelly Brothers movie, so look forward to lots of crass jokes and really uncomfortable moments. Lots of them. Seriously, like job lots. There’s absolutely no way you’re going to get around this. About half of the first half hour is going to be entirely crass jokes and awkward moments. The rest of the movie, meanwhile, will be well populated if not quite that dense. Watch for full-frontal male nudity…on at least two occasions.

It’s not going to be for everybody. In fact, it’s going to be for, basically, only people who can put up with Farrelly hijinks for any length of time. And this is going to be a full-bore Farrelly title. It’ll have its heartwarming moments, no mistake, and its clever patches, as well as its horrendous disaster moments and its cringing horrors and its uncomfortable stretches where you want nothing so much as to look away.

And if you can put up with the incredible awkwardness of it all, you’re going to have a fairly funny and a reasonably heartwarming excursion that is only occasionally unpleasant. You don’t want to know what happens to a young woman’s sneeze in a hotel bathroom…but let’s just say…it’s a good thing she was sitting on the edge of the bathtub when it happened.

The Screenhead Ten Scale gives the raucous, riotous, and often revolting Hall Pass a six out of ten, as both a way to give the Farrellys due credit for their high points, but as much to smack them down for wasting our time with more dick and fart jokes than anyone ever needed.