A fun light hearted 80s teen film about a single dad struggling to deal with his teen daughter growing up and starting to date. The dad places his faith in a best selling book and ends up getting himself into more and more ludicrous situations to try and keep track of his daughter.
The film is largely very light hearted and superficially flippant. It has a few funny scenes such as the father trying to be cool and hang out with his daughters friends as part of his ploy. The script is very forced and everything about it is pretty unbelievable and cartoony. I'd say the best bits of it are probably the father attempting to fit in with his daughter's new friends which has some comedic results. Another moment in the film is surprisingly dark actually which was certainly an uncomfortable few seconds to say the least for the daughter character.
The film though does have a very odd premise and a few of the characters in it just don't work which is a shame because they get a lot of time.
The film is largely very light hearted and superficially flippant. It has a few funny scenes such as the father trying to be cool and hang out with his daughters friends as part of his ploy. The script is very forced and everything about it is pretty unbelievable and cartoony. I'd say the best bits of it are probably the father attempting to fit in with his daughter's new friends which has some comedic results. Another moment in the film is surprisingly dark actually which was certainly an uncomfortable few seconds to say the least for the daughter character.
The film though does have a very odd premise and a few of the characters in it just don't work which is a shame because they get a lot of time.