This is 40 – 5

There are a bunch of jokes that make you laugh, but never uproariously, and that’s about it. Overhanging what there is of a story is a monumental disconnect: husband and wife are both in low-paying (or non-paying) jobs and they are facing bankruptcy, yet he drives a BMW, she a Lexus; he gives his father – an annoying Albert Brooks – $80,000; they go to a resort in Laguna Beach and order the entire room service menu; he has a huge blowout birthday party; he flies aging rockers over from London on his credit card – and somehow we’re supposed to think they’re cute, or sympathize with their situation? The kids (Apatow’s own) are cute, and the wife (also Apatow’s own) is beautiful, but all the others just remind us they’ve been in better, funnier movies.