Mr. Mom takes a stumbling idiot of a man and makes him into the perfect stay-at-home-dad.
Jack (Michael Keaton) was a capable engineer for a car company in Michigan until he was laid off. His wife, Caroline (Teri Garr), was able to find a job before him leaving him home to take care of the house and the kids. Apparently he had the intelligence just above a single cell amoeba because he couldn't do anything around the house. This wasn't an attempt to illustrate his masculinity because when he pretended to be doing manly chores he didn't even know the voltage of electricity in his house. If anything it was to illustrate the difficulty of being a stay-at-home-mom. I think that it is a tremendous responsibility, but I also think Jack was a total imbecile.
Jack eventually morphs into a capable stay-at-home-dad. Hooray! The movie still wasn't good. It wasn't funny and it wasn't clever. It was a man making a fool of himself at home and a smart woman being objectified at work. I'll pass.
Jack (Michael Keaton) was a capable engineer for a car company in Michigan until he was laid off. His wife, Caroline (Teri Garr), was able to find a job before him leaving him home to take care of the house and the kids. Apparently he had the intelligence just above a single cell amoeba because he couldn't do anything around the house. This wasn't an attempt to illustrate his masculinity because when he pretended to be doing manly chores he didn't even know the voltage of electricity in his house. If anything it was to illustrate the difficulty of being a stay-at-home-mom. I think that it is a tremendous responsibility, but I also think Jack was a total imbecile.
Jack eventually morphs into a capable stay-at-home-dad. Hooray! The movie still wasn't good. It wasn't funny and it wasn't clever. It was a man making a fool of himself at home and a smart woman being objectified at work. I'll pass.