As a fan of Steve Coogan's pinnacle "Alan Partridge" I put on this movie. Paul Rudd is someone I have enjoyed in many movies and so this was looking good.
I watched as a domestic comedy played out, not as funny as it thought it was but it might get better.
Two males in a relationship, a struggling relationship, find themselves the guardians of a young boy, the grandson no less of Steve Coogan's character.
What we end up with is a very crude gag show where actual children are confronted with filthy jokes.
What world is this acceptable? Children are in this movie, they will want to be proud of what they have done but how can they be?
This is a shallow redemption story with no real redemption only a child having to put up with the lot he is given. Not much of a choice granted and hard to imagine that child services would not have been better.
Coogans character is a needy show off who gets what he wants and indeed takes who he wants and that situation is ongoing and probably will not change.
Think of it as a buddy movie with drinking and sex and swearing and then think of one of those buddy's being a child.
At the end of this tripe there is pictures of other people and I realised that this is a true story. The truth is there is a very very sad story here but this film does little to tell it. It was probably written by one of the main characters being portrayed and it probably should not have been.
How low can you go?
Coogans US career has been miss and miss, never quite getting anywhere. Shame but this film is a low for everyone involved and the only winner was the person who wrote this as Hollywood should not have paid one dime and should never have made this narcissistic rubbish.
I watched as a domestic comedy played out, not as funny as it thought it was but it might get better.
Two males in a relationship, a struggling relationship, find themselves the guardians of a young boy, the grandson no less of Steve Coogan's character.
What we end up with is a very crude gag show where actual children are confronted with filthy jokes.
What world is this acceptable? Children are in this movie, they will want to be proud of what they have done but how can they be?
This is a shallow redemption story with no real redemption only a child having to put up with the lot he is given. Not much of a choice granted and hard to imagine that child services would not have been better.
Coogans character is a needy show off who gets what he wants and indeed takes who he wants and that situation is ongoing and probably will not change.
Think of it as a buddy movie with drinking and sex and swearing and then think of one of those buddy's being a child.
At the end of this tripe there is pictures of other people and I realised that this is a true story. The truth is there is a very very sad story here but this film does little to tell it. It was probably written by one of the main characters being portrayed and it probably should not have been.
How low can you go?
Coogans US career has been miss and miss, never quite getting anywhere. Shame but this film is a low for everyone involved and the only winner was the person who wrote this as Hollywood should not have paid one dime and should never have made this narcissistic rubbish.
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