This is mostly a breezy, silly, family-friendly comedy that will probably be more successful at home than it will be in multiplexes filled with much louder movies.

It is a wild, midnight movie kind of experience, meant to be seen with a raucous crowd in the mood for something weird.

Idiots is only about ¾ as nasty and stupid as it needed to be to be consistently funny.

It is funny, uses the classic characters well and contains lots of silly in-jokes for fans.

I enjoy Thorny, Mac, Farva, Foster and Rabbit as much as the next guy, but it’s probably time they went into retirement.

The fact that it mostly works is a testament to the writing, which never pushes the concept any further than the basic premise, and the chemistry between the two leads. It is just pleasant, with some genuinely funny moments.

It is an amusing story with some structural issues and an unsatisfying conclusion. But it is intriguing most of the way.

It looked good coming in; it was even better than I anticipated.

Silly, happy, with a smile on its face and a song in its heart, it is just trying to make people laugh. At no point in its 88-minute runtime are we intended to take its ridiculous story seriously.

The result is a goofy, and surprisingly heartfelt, ode to old Hollywood, with tons of references and in-jokes that will go over the heads of not only kids, but a lot of adults, too.