1) Boot laptop
2) Open "Movie Formula 2c - Family Comedy.doc" file
3) Change husband profession to Homemaker/School Talent Show director
4) Change wife profession to architect
5) Change house pet to tortoise
6) Change relationship with troublemaker to "best friend"
7) Find and replace "Main Character" with "Kevin Hart"
8) Find and Replace "Secondary Character" with "Mark Wahlberg"
9) Find "primary action joke" scene - insert joke sequence 17A
10) Print and distribute.
There ya go.. this film in a nutshell. There's NOTHING original here. It's all terribly predictable without any surprises whatsoever.
That being written, it's not "terrible" - it's just VERY run-of-the-mill. NO ONE is stepping outside any comfort zones here - not the actors, not the writer/director.... no one. I, personally, found no laughter here - I saw the attempts, but all the jokes fell completely flat for me. Watch with the family.. teenagers or "tweens" MIGHT like it more - merely because they may not be aware of some of the 'the world doesn't work like that' aspects. But it's just sugar-coated standard schlock from Netflix's "family comedy" sweatshop.
2) Open "Movie Formula 2c - Family Comedy.doc" file
3) Change husband profession to Homemaker/School Talent Show director
4) Change wife profession to architect
5) Change house pet to tortoise
6) Change relationship with troublemaker to "best friend"
7) Find and replace "Main Character" with "Kevin Hart"
8) Find and Replace "Secondary Character" with "Mark Wahlberg"
9) Find "primary action joke" scene - insert joke sequence 17A
10) Print and distribute.
There ya go.. this film in a nutshell. There's NOTHING original here. It's all terribly predictable without any surprises whatsoever.
That being written, it's not "terrible" - it's just VERY run-of-the-mill. NO ONE is stepping outside any comfort zones here - not the actors, not the writer/director.... no one. I, personally, found no laughter here - I saw the attempts, but all the jokes fell completely flat for me. Watch with the family.. teenagers or "tweens" MIGHT like it more - merely because they may not be aware of some of the 'the world doesn't work like that' aspects. But it's just sugar-coated standard schlock from Netflix's "family comedy" sweatshop.