Dumbbells (2014)

Dumbbells manages to be pleasant and largely inoffensive despite early indications that it might turn into a T&A-fest.

With verbal jabs and sight gags in equal measure, the script proves serviceably funny. As the film progresses, though, the hilarity does not escalate along with the outrageousness.

If it was still the 1980s, then Dumbbells might actually be a hit.

The movie is so incoherent that its screenplay, by Mr. Drolet and Mr. Richards, might as well have been scrawled between takes as it was being filmed.

A few barely conceived scenes allow Carl Reiner, Tom Arnold and Jay Mohr to show up for a quick paycheck. What’s that title again?