Jack (Luke Wilson) is a business man living in Houston in the late 1990s with his wife and kids. He's called to LA to help a friend fix a problem because Jack is good at fixing things. Once he gets there he ends up working with two losers, Buck (Gabriel Macht) and Wayne (Giovanni Ribisi) who have somehow invented a way to pay for Internet porn with a credit card online (apparently this couldn't be done before these two schmucks came around). Jack works with them to grow their business and keep it clean.
Along the way, they get into a partnership with the Russian mafia (because as a fixer, Jack thinks this would be a good idea), kill a Russian mobster and Jack falls into a relationship with a young porn starlet and leaves his wife (who is bizarrely still in Houston while he's swinging his dick around Southern California).
The story would be more frustrating for it's holes if it wasn't totally trite. You can expect every little plot twist long before it comes onscreen. Buck and Wayne are such fools it's totally impossible they could have designed the program they designed or set up a website to feed porn through. More than anything, Jack seems like a character from another movie. He's very straight and normal, but he's surrounded by over-the-top cartoon characters like the Russian mob boss, the slimy lawyer and these two stoned freaks. Even the murder and the money are not good enough reasons for him to stick around.
There are a ton of topless women in this movie - but that is about all the excitement you get from it. Most of those tits are plastic and surgically enhanced - which is a good metaphor for the film. It's big and round and has a big cast, but it's totally phony and doesn't move much (when lying flat).
Stars: 1 of 4
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