![]() Their next stop introduces another female tagalong in Isla Fisher, playing Hoagie’s wife, Anna, who not only tolerates her husband’s childhood obsession but turns out to be even more competitive than the guys. Plus, the curious journo doubles as a convenient excuse for the characters to deliver exposition every now and then - which is especially useful when these guys go changing the rules on what’s arguably the simplest game on Earth. That’s not quite how it happened in real life, since a colleague gave WSJ writer Russell Adams the tip on the Tag Brothers, although someone rightly concluded that this bromance might work better with a few women along for the ride. ![]() Bob happens to be doing a hot-air interview with a Wall Street Journal reporter (Annabelle Wallis) when Hoagie shows up, and the scene is so outrageous, she ditches the profile assignment to pursue this new story. The opening scene gives audiences an idea of just how far these guys will go to get one another, as Hoagie interviews for a job as a janitor in the swanky New York insurance film where Bob Callahan (Hamm) works. ![]() That means 11 months later, when May rolls around again, it’s his duty to tag one of his four childhood buddies - which has become trickier as the years go by, and as jobs and marriages have scattered the old friends to different cities. Helms plays Hoagie, who was “It” (the last guy tagged) on the final day of May the year before. While end-credits footage suggests a documentary about the real guys might have been just as fun, director Jeff Tomsic (making a perfectly capable feature debut) conveys just how extreme a game like this could get, amplifying the “action” to the point of absurdity.
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