Review: We're off to see a great screwball comedy in 'Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass'

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Set us as preferred The screwball joy “Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass” is about a one-in-a-million lovers’ bluff that comes true.Midwestern childhood sweethearts Gail (Zoey Deutch) and Tom (Michael Cassidy) are two weeks from their wedding when the dopey groom-to-be sleeps with Jennifer Aniston, the one star he had joking permission to bonk.

To balance the score, Gail and her best friend Otto (Miles Gutierrez-Riley) fly from Kansas to Los Angeles so she can seduce her famous freebie, Jon Hamm.A one-night Hamm stand will salvage the chipper cheerleader’s happily-ever-after with her sweet but stupid former quarterback — if she can convince the actor to participate.Director David Wain has made a sex comedy that’s as innocent as a Labrador puppy.

For extra cuteness, he’s even modeled the structure on “The Wizard of Oz.” Gail and Otto skip along Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, aided in their quest by a humbled paparazzo (Ken Marino), a quick-talking CAA agent-in-training (Ben Wang) and “Mad Men’s” John Slattery playing a scumbag mockery of himself as a has-been pining for the days when he and Hamm were AMC’s prize studs.All of Slattery’s lines are filthy or pathetic.

He’s terrific.Meanwhile, the wickedly witchy villain Ludovica (“White Lotus” breakout Sabrina Impacciatore) is furious that her minions accidentally swapped her luggage with Gail‘s at LAX.The laziness of the old-fashioned suitcase switcheroo device is part of the movie’s charm.

Wain and longtime collaborator and co-screenwriter Marino would rather invest their energy cramming in so many jokes that I could quote a dozen punchlines and barely spoil a thing.(I won’t.) Entertainment & Arts My usual problem with capers is they almost always climax with a tedious chase sequence.

Thankfully, Wain undermines the formula,...