There are so many things wrong with this so-called 'comedy'. I would love to list everyone single one of the faults but as I am limited to 1,000 words, I won't be able to come close.
To start with, the character's were undeveloped, unbelievable and dislikeable. In a road movie such as this one, where the only thing to carry the movie is the character's and their relationships, the audience needs to connect in some way with them to really be engaged with the story. The character's here are not engaging, they are mostly black stereotypes with no depth and do such unbelievable thing such as pee in plastic cup inside the car and throw each others CDs out of the car. The basic ideas for the family members were: separated parents, a wannabe rapper, a girl always on the phone and a sweet young girl. However, no one took these ideas and developed them into characters I could identify as real people.
Another main problem of the movie is that it has set out to be a comedy but is, to put it simply, not funny. I didn't laugh once during this film, the jokes were just so dire. I just can't get my head around how having Nate climb a telephone pole in the middle of a corn field to get to the phone was supposed to be funny. Why was the phone at the top of a telephone pole in the middle of a corn field?
The film is also lacking a point. I didn't understand why the five of them travelled through numerous states over several days just so they can compete for a meaningless trophy and so Bate can triumph over his obnoxious brother. As well as that, you don't Bate's family too win the trophy as you as spent the whole of the film building up a hate towards them.
And finally, this film throws at us the biggest road movie cliché of the all, it shows us that the experience has made Bate a better person. He promises to be a better husband etc and you can see that the experience has had a profound effect on him but it was a bit too late in the film for it to try and get deep.
Let me warn you now, do not watch this film. You will never get back the 97 minutes you spend on this.
To start with, the character's were undeveloped, unbelievable and dislikeable. In a road movie such as this one, where the only thing to carry the movie is the character's and their relationships, the audience needs to connect in some way with them to really be engaged with the story. The character's here are not engaging, they are mostly black stereotypes with no depth and do such unbelievable thing such as pee in plastic cup inside the car and throw each others CDs out of the car. The basic ideas for the family members were: separated parents, a wannabe rapper, a girl always on the phone and a sweet young girl. However, no one took these ideas and developed them into characters I could identify as real people.
Another main problem of the movie is that it has set out to be a comedy but is, to put it simply, not funny. I didn't laugh once during this film, the jokes were just so dire. I just can't get my head around how having Nate climb a telephone pole in the middle of a corn field to get to the phone was supposed to be funny. Why was the phone at the top of a telephone pole in the middle of a corn field?
The film is also lacking a point. I didn't understand why the five of them travelled through numerous states over several days just so they can compete for a meaningless trophy and so Bate can triumph over his obnoxious brother. As well as that, you don't Bate's family too win the trophy as you as spent the whole of the film building up a hate towards them.
And finally, this film throws at us the biggest road movie cliché of the all, it shows us that the experience has made Bate a better person. He promises to be a better husband etc and you can see that the experience has had a profound effect on him but it was a bit too late in the film for it to try and get deep.
Let me warn you now, do not watch this film. You will never get back the 97 minutes you spend on this.
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