When I saw the awful Photoshop disaster poster I had a bad feeling about this movie, but nothing prepared me for the disappointment it brought upon me. The premise is simple: two brothers, played by Ed Helms and Oven Wilson go on a road trip to find their real father. Both characters are exactly who you would expect, Ed Helms is of course the usual neurotic, loser type of character while Owen Wilson plays the spiritual, happy go lucky weirdo. What you would also expect from a movie like this are jokes, but they seem to have forgotten to write them, and the ones that are there are so crude that they feel completely out of place in a movie like this. There are also a few what the hell moments when I guess the actors improvised and they thought it was funny and they left it in the movie for some reason (probably to extend the runtime), but it doesn't really work. There's also a lot of pointless rambling, probably for the exact same reason. Overall we weren't able to finish the movie, and it is getting really annoying to see this long line of failed comedies these days. It's always the same thing, there's a decent setup and likeable actors so you get excited and invested at first, but the flick totally loses you to boredom after a while.
Review of Father Figures
