Watch it. It's great. The jokes are mostly on point, the staging is good and even though i hat slow-mo, it really works here. Including the train of thought they play into the scene from the off. Would have gotten a better rating, if it wasn't so far over the top from time to time. And some characters could have used a bit more depth, or at least it would have been interesting.

Anyways. Good and fun movie.

5 men devote every May to playing Tag, something which they have been doing since they were kids. 30 year ago. And Jerry has never been tagged, and time is running out.

This is a great idea, but very very silly. Until you find out that it is based on the activity of a group of 10 real-life friends. Ed Helms' air of an everyman teetering on the edge is ideal for the role of Hoagie, pushing hard for the group to tag Jerry, and Jeremy Renner has huge fun as Jerry, supremely self-confident because he is, in fact, far better at this than the other 4 combined.

There are some action set pieces which are very well choreographed as well as being funny, and some fun performances, not least from Isla Fisher as Hoagie's wife, ever-so-slightly out of control. The story takes an unexpected twist towards the end, but it works,

And, importantly, I liked these people. Hoagie is a bit of an ass, and Jerry is a bit full of himself, but on the whole these are decent, likeable folk and I enjoyed their company.

The end credits contain a selection of home movie clips featuring the real-life taggers in action over the years. Delightful.

Wall Street Journal reporter Rebecca Crosby (Annabelle Wallis) is interviewing businessman Bob Callahan (Jon Hamm) when they're interrupted by Hoagie Malloy (Ed Helms) in disguise. The guys explain that they've been playing the same game of tag since childhood in the month of May. Rebecca is immediately more interested in the tag story and joins them as they set out to tag the untagable Jerry Pierce (Jeremy Renner) who has never been tagged in 30 years. Jerry is marrying Susan Rollins (Leslie Bibb) and the group heads home to crash the party. The group includes Chilli Cilliano (Jake Johnson), Hoagie's wife Anna (Isla Fisher), and Kevin Sable (Hannibal Buress). Jerry invites Bob and Hoagie's childhood love Cheryl Deakins (Rashida Jones) to distract them.

I really like this group of actors and they have a fun chemistry together. This is fun for awhile but the stakes are so low that it fails to gather any tension. The momentum fades and I'm not sure how to get it back. The heart of this movie is the group dynamics. From the first moment of Helms and Hamm, I'm in on this group. I'm less convinced about Wallis. She's a little bland and if she's that way, then she has to be a romantic interest for somebody. Fisher has a couple of funny outbursts as she is known to do. Renner is almost playing the villain which may be too dark for this light inconsequential subject matter. Rashida Jones comes in later but the love triangle wilts on the vine. The first tag scene with Renner has a fun action thrill but the subsequent ones doesn't have the same punch. Overall, this is a fun bunch but the fun in the movie does fade.