The best part about The Overnight is the combined awkwardness of Scott and Schwartzman, who are just inherently uncomfortable by nature. The movie is mostly about them getting out of their comfort zone enough to sing while swinging prosthetic dicks around, but the rest of the movie doesn’t feel as jaunty. Skinny dipping and smoking pot past 8:00 PM doesn’t faze me as a pompous college student who’s “done it all,” unlike the 50+ year-old ladies behind me who were audibly gasping at Adam Scott using a bong. As a result, the sexually tense night ends in a rather quick 79 minutes with nothing especially slaphappy happening. Still, the blend of secondhand embarassment, casual humor, and a dark yellow-ish hue that feels like a happy drunk is enough for The Overnight to establish itself as a somewhat raunchy but mostly tame watch worth visiting.
Grade: C+