- "ill ****ing" in
contrast with the
predominantly "comically
light and
slapsticky" tone of the
overall movie. In contrast,
Peter Debruge of
Variety gave...
- that "Vaughn
makes the
movie tolerable here and there, but this kind of
slapsticky physical comedy doesn't suit
Witherspoon at all."
Frank Lovece of Film...
- "refreshingly age-appropriate". She
found the
movie to be
goofy but not
slapsticky, and that it was "like a
junior version of
Thelma and
Louise albeit with...
-
Washington Post,
noted that the film
engages in "lowbrow
insults and
slapsticky shenanigans" and its
humor "hovers
around crotch level." Yamato, Jen (March...
- Dad
tries for a
sentimental conclusion it doesn't earn and
winds up a
slapsticky cash grab
aimed at fans of Home Alone." Metacritic,
which uses a weighted...
-
violence that is
seriously treated, and
ridiculously over-the-top, even
slapsticky sequences that seem out-of-place in what is
meant to be a
crime film based...
- meeting,
Dylan told Charles, "I don't want to do it anymore, it's too
slapsticky".
Charles decided to stay on as co-writer and director, with the concept...
-
scenes the film "threatens to
devolve into the sappy, the preachy, and the
slapsticky" but
noted that
these scenes were "mercifully brief".
Steve Rose, the...
-
shape this Idea into the film it became. I took away a
little bit of the
slapsticky stuff that was
there for the
little little kids, the ****
jokes and things...
-
audience waiting to be
gulled into
somnambulistic complacency by
these new
slapsticky and
sentimental antics. ... [T]he film must rely on the inventiveness...
