Take Ben Stiller (who I don't overly care for anyway), Chris Walken (who is normally amazing in most films he does) and Jack Black (who is mainly pretty funny) and put them in Envy. A film about excrement. And that should set the old alarm bells ringing right there. It hasn't? Wow, your dim! A friend lying to a friend about a missing dead pet horse (was that ever going to be funny? NO!).
It then devolves into a blackmail movie with Walken holding Stiller to Ransom with the threat of revealing to Black that Stiller killed his horse (this plot line could be derailed in seconds by Stiller just owning up. Black seems like enough of a friend to forgive him). As far as their problem turning the merry go round off? Why didn't they just unplug it? Obvious solution or what? Likewise the odds of Stiller hitting someone or something else with an arrow by accident are so small (like the amount of laughs in this film, actually) it's almost impossible.
Black forgives Stiller (as predicted) after he confesses his guilt and envy to Black. Obviously in the end it turns out the spray is toxic and their on the verge of bankruptcy when Stiller has his big idea, Pocket Flan. And thus the film ends. Thank you for stopping the rot.
Avoid like the tax man.
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