I didn't think this movie would be any good, but Bryan Cranston is probably my favourite actor, and a few of James Franco's films have made me giggle, such as "This Is the End," and "The Interview." So I decided to give it a shot.
It was pretty awful. The plot is what you'd expect, standard soppy story of guy trying to win father-in-law's approval, but being humorously obnoxious. The twist in this film is that the guy is rich and had no parental figures/role models growing up, so he swears a lot and has bad manners etc.
I just found that there were no jokes in this film. It's mostly that slightly humorous things happen, and that's about it. For example, slight spoiler: One of the jokes is the family arrive at the daughter's boyfriend's house to meet him, and he's got their Christmas photo freshly tattooed on his back. Still a bit red raw. Ok, that would be hilariously awkward if it happened in real life, but it's just not that funny in a comedy film.
It was just a bit of a waste of time... there are far better films to waste your time on. I think I might have found this film a lot better if I was 13 actually, and hadn't really seen these types of films before. All the juvenile sex jokes and toilet humour would have been fresher.
Review by gazm2k5BlockedParent2017-04-15T16:10:02Z
I didn't think this movie would be any good, but Bryan Cranston is probably my favourite actor, and a few of James Franco's films have made me giggle, such as "This Is the End," and "The Interview." So I decided to give it a shot.
It was pretty awful. The plot is what you'd expect, standard soppy story of guy trying to win father-in-law's approval, but being humorously obnoxious. The twist in this film is that the guy is rich and had no parental figures/role models growing up, so he swears a lot and has bad manners etc.
I just found that there were no jokes in this film. It's mostly that slightly humorous things happen, and that's about it. For example, slight spoiler:
One of the jokes is the family arrive at the daughter's boyfriend's house to meet him, and he's got their Christmas photo freshly tattooed on his back. Still a bit red raw. Ok, that would be hilariously awkward if it happened in real life, but it's just not that funny in a comedy film.
It was just a bit of a waste of time... there are far better films to waste your time on. I think I might have found this film a lot better if I was 13 actually, and hadn't really seen these types of films before. All the juvenile sex jokes and toilet humour would have been fresher.