THE FOURSOME (2006) * ½

Kevin Dillon reconnects with three of his high school friends during their twenty-year reunion.  The next day, they meet up for a couple rounds of golf.  On the golf course, they ruminate about their love lives, career, and station in life.  Predictably, their friendship is tested when they suspect each other of cheating with their spouses.  

Directed by William (Henry and the Hendersons) Dear, The Foursome is reminiscent in some ways to The First to Go as they both focus on men of a certain age at a crossroad in their lives.  While that film was packed to the gills with terrific actors, all this one has to offer is Kevin Dillon and a handful of annoying non-stars.  It doesn’t help that the humor is set to a sub-sitcom level.  The scenes of male bonding fall flat too, and the golfing humor isn’t funny either.  (There are scenes that wouldn’t have cut the mustard for Caddyshack 3.)  The film also loses whatever meager momentum it has earned whenever it switches focus to the characters’ wives gossiping in the gym while their hubbies are out on the course.

Dillon gets by solely by acting like a smartass.  He’s easily more charismatic and fun to watch that the rest of his golfing buddies.  The film was probably going to be forgettable from the get-go, but it might’ve been a little more tolerable had the supporting cast had been filled with actors who were closer to Dillon’s caliber.  As it is, it’s almost as if you’re watching Johnny Drama, but with an Entourage of nothing more than extras.

Ultimately, it’s hard to generate laughs when you’re saddled with a weak script and an amateurish supporting cast.  The seventy-nine-minute running time, which sounds like it would be mercilessly short, feels much longer.  Overall, you’d have more fun looking for your ball in the rough for that amount of time than you would watching The Foursome.