Robin Williams and John Travolta prove they have no shame in this disappointing family 'comedy'.
Robin, John. Please. I know you’re struggling for cash and all but still – this? I thought you had some respect for yourself. Clearly not. I could think of harder ways to earn ones millions but not many more degrading.
In this latest Disney ‘comedy’ Robin Williams and John Travolta play Dan and Charlie, two 50-something sports marketing gurus whose lives are thrown into disarray when Vicki (Kelly Preston), who once had a whirlwind romance with Dan, turns up and informs him she’s about to go to jail for a couple of weeks and would he like to look after the kids – twins who he happens to be the father of.
Dan agrees and so the rest of the film is spent with the kid-phobic buddies trying to learn how to deal with a couple of seven year olds. Perhaps you might find their hi-jinks funny if you have an infantile sense of humour. Dan and Charlie take the kids camping – cue them being mistaken for a gay couple. Dan and Charlie are each on piles of prescriptions – cue the kids mixing up the pills so Dan and Charlie get loopy side effects. Dan, Charlie and Craig (oh yeah, Seth Green decided he needed an easy pay check too) break into a zoo – cue an intimate connection with a gorilla. Who comes up with this stuff?
Granted, younger kids will get some decent laughs out of it. And there are some (heavy handed) Disney family values on display. But it’s still hard to justify exposing them to a movie of this quality. I swear my I.Q was dropping as each minute passed by. The only possible reason for seeing this film is to catch Bernie Mac in his final screen role. It’s just a shame it couldn’t have been something better.
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