GAME OVER, MAN: REVIEW ever wonder what a remake of “Die Hard” might look like if it were written by

It has been one year since Workaholics went off the air at Comedy Central, and a large segment of its audience has felt the absence of Blake, Anders, and Adam. That said, the creative trio clearly still wants to keep working together, albeit in the feature film realm.

But don’t fret, the old-styled ‘stoner comedy’ is back, and refined by Anders Holm, Blake Anderson and Adam DeVine and has gotten even raunchier, crazier, and more… reckless.

“Game Over, Man!” stars Holm, DeVine, and Anderson as three relatively bros who work housekeeping at a fancy hotel. They don’t have much going for themselves in life, and they know it. Much of their day-to-day life is spent dreaming of fame and fortune while numbing themselves to the reality of their own existences — mainly Darren, who has an affinity for tripping on salvia during work hours.

In their spare time, they work on a tech project called Skintendo, which is sort of a virtual reality thing, but they really use most of their time to get high and act like idiots (sort of like they did on “Workaholics”).

However, when an insanely wealthy social media star named Bey Awadi (Utkarsh Ambudkar) throws a party at the hotel, the crew sees an opportunity to break free from their impoverished lives by pitching him a high-tech video game that they’ve been working on in secret.

From there, things take a violent turn when terrorists led by Conrad Drothers (Neal McDonough) burst in and hold the party ransom — leading to a game of cat and mouse in which our heroes must embrace their inner ‘John McClan’e and save the hostages.

Leaning into the personalities developed on that show, Holm is the de facto leader of the group, mostly due to his ego, and Anderson is the sweeter, smarter member of the trio.

At its core, Game Over, Man! is a sendup of Die Hard, and it proudly wears that label on its sleeve. DeVine is the borderline lunatic once again, giving the actor the chance to show off his physical comedy chops, and his willingness to do absolutely anything to get a laugh.

Another character in a group of black-clad folks disembarking from an S.U.V. says to their ringleader, “You didn’t bring me along because I look like the black nerd from ‘Die Hard,’ cause I don’t.”

Holm, Anderson, and Devine (especially Devine, in fact) play their characters incredibly broad to the point that they’re more grating than loveable.

Joel is secretly gay (that’s his entire arc), Darren is smart but wholly incapable of doing anything without drugs, and Alexxx is a buffoon with no self-awareness. That’s pretty much it as far as dimensions go for each of them, and there’s nothing tangible to connect to that makes them feel like real people.

Netflix has been getting a lot of flak for their big budget originals not fairing so well on the critics’ scorecards, but if you hate on Game Over Man! — I’m not sure we could be friends.

But saying that… more problematic is how often “Game Over, Man!” sabotages its best bits.

There’s a funny, extreme beat in which DeVine’s character chooses to “hide” by pretending to have choked himself to death with his dick in his hand in a closet.

The best bits are often the quickest ones, including a scene with Shaggy that is undeniably funny, and the times when the comedians are just riffing off each other.

And the movie gets markedly funnier as the pace picks up because of the plot. Early scenes that go on way too long—there’s a used condom bit that will likely have many viewers lunging for the remote—are supplanted by a quicker pace.

A Netflix Original directed by Kyle Newacheck, is distinguished by a relentless level of outrageous. There’s an abundance of cameos from viral stars, with people such as Action Bronson and Sugar BayBee getting star treatment, but if you’re like me and don’t know who they are, the jokes will go over your head. But Steve-O, and the genuinely amusing comedian Joel McHale makes a cameo appearance, and a host of other celebs, too.

To say that “Game Over, Man!” thrives on extreme comedy would be the understatement of the century. In “Game Over, Man!” features autoerotic asphyxiation, attempts to torture ‘Bey’ by making him toss another man’s salad, and a severed penis used as a prop.

Though it’s great to see the Workaholics guys back together again after the conclusion of their Comedy Central series, we just wish they had a better movie to spark their reunion.

If you are a conservative viewer, then be prepared to be hospitalized with cardiac arrest or some sought of seizure. “Game Over, Man!” is grotesque, violent, insane and offensive—in other words, it’s kind of exactly what you’d expect from a “Workaholics” movie unrestricted by basic — if any — censors.

If you’ve never seen the show, you might want to try first.

But…

If you’re already familiar…

You know what you’re getting into.

4/5 stars