Tim and Nick have been best friends their entire lives. They do everything together from working in the same plant, to spending all their free time with each other’s family’s, which works out perfect because they live across the street from each other. But while Tim is a focused determined individual and gets all the promotions at work, Nick is a dreamer who always has his head in the clouds. See Nick always has these wonderful invention ideas that he thinks will make him rich and set him on the easy street. While Tim thinks his ideas are stupid and have no chance of succeeding. That is when Nick comes up with the idea of a spray can that when sprayed on dog poop will make it disappear. So Nick begins the long process of making his idea a reality all the while Tim doubts him and refuses to help. Just before Nick makes his break through he offers to let Tim in own his invention as full partners if he will split the costs of the research and kick in $2000. But Tim turns him down, even though he has the money to do it. But then all of a sudden Nick’s invention goes through the roof and he becomes a multimillionaire. Now they find their friendship breaking apart as Tim finds he has missed out on the opportunity of a lifetime and he can not seem to stop himself from going mad with….. Envy.

There was a point in the movie that I asked myself, if they were going to be able to find enough of a story or plot to flesh out another hour of movie. That’s pretty sad when 30 minutes into a movie you feel that they are done and they are going to have a difficulty being able to do or say anything for the rest of the movie. This is because the plot is so paper thin, that it is almost see through. There really isn’t enough of a story to be told to fill the entire time the movie is going to run, this might have worked as a half hour sitcom though but not as movie. The movie is not totally terrible but it’s not even really that good either. Envy has it moments where it can make you laugh but they are so few and far in between that the movie never makes you care. The best compliment you probably could give for the movie is that it’s Ok, and if the producers and actors are happy just making an Ok movie then I guess they succeeded. Ben Stiller really needs to get out of these roles though as an actor, they have grown so tiresome because it is all he seems able to play and he hasn’t shown a single ounce of versatility in his entire career that audiences are about to quickly become bored with him and look for funnier actors and funnier movies. Jack Black plays his typical wacky character and between him and Stiller, I have to wonder if either of them has any creativity left in them.
2 stars out of 5