![]() ![]() I think she’s supposed to be outrageously funny, though the schtick feels forced. Soon, they join up with Hoagie’s wife Anna ( Isla Fisher), a manically intense competitor who always seems to be either getting hurt or hurting others. The plot concerns four of the members’ efforts to finally tag Jerry (Renner), after decades in which he has managed to go untagged. The reporter promptly ditches her story and joins the men on a cross-country game of tag, where they stop periodically to deliver chunks of exposition about their complicated and endlessly revisable game. Bob is in the middle of an interview with a newspaper reporter ( Annabelle Wallis) when Hoagie tags him. ![]() Helms stars as Hoagie, a veterinarian who, in an opening scene, takes a job as a janitor to gain access to the insurance company where Bob (Hamm) is the new CEO. The five friends, originally from Spokane, Washington, spend May of each year playing “tag.” That means criss-crossing the country dressed in disguises, stalking men at work and home, breaking into each other’s homes and finding elaborate ways to elude each other, leaving one person “it” for the next 11 months. That includes the presence of Hangover star Ed Helms, now with a new guy gang including Hamm, Renner, Jake Johnson (TV’s The New Girl) and comedian Hannibal Buress. Yet it’s obvious from the get-go that a more significant source of inspiration for writers Rob McKittrick and Mark Steilen and director Jeff Tomsic is the trio of Hangover films, with their combination of bro-bonding and gross-outs gags.
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