Not an irritation in the strictest definition, but certainly from the “bad idea” files comes word that the idiot-stuntman comedy Hot Rod, Andy Samberg’s introduction to the film world after a quick ascension up the ranks of Saturday Night Live as the latest self-effacing goofball in the Adam Sandler/Jimmy Fallon mold, has a running time of 120 minutes. This per the Los Angeles Film Festival’s web site, which hosts a special outdoor screening of the movie at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre on Thursday, June 28.

Comedy isn’t always brevity — Knocked Up comes in at just over two hours, and 2005’s Wedding Crashers was fine at about six or seven minutes short of that mark — but for a broad, putatively mainstream leading man debut, this reeks of runaway myopia. Get in, get out, and leave audiences wanting more, Samberg. Hot Rod‘s trailer already seemed to tell the movie’s entire story (and then some), and unless there’s some subtlety and/or labyrinthine reversals I’m missing in footage of Ian McShane and Samberg wrestling in the dirt and talking about mustaches, this is a bad idea.

UPDATE 6/12, 10:05 a.m.: According to an email from Paramount, the running time has yet to be finalized. Stay tuned…

UPDATE 7/13: Good news, of a sort — Hot Rod‘s final commercial release running time is in the ballpark of 87 minutes or so, definitely under 90 minutes, even with credits.