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It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Iabsolutely loved, i really loved it, in the end credits scene you notice, why its such an amazing movie, jonah hill wrote it, i want more ovies like this!

Stephanie prevails upon her parents, Ned and Barb, to travel with her younger brother from Michigan to California, to spend Christmas at her (newly disclosed to her parents) boyfriend Laird's place. Laird turns out to be unable to utter a sentence without the word "f*ck" or one of its derivatives appearing in it at least once, usually more often. He also wears fewer clothes than conservative Ned is comfortable with. It also turns out that he is very wealthy, and that there are a number of other important issues which Stephanie has been less than frank about.Comedies based on generation gaps or, more usually, attitude gaps are not rarities, so the chasm between rather prim and conservative Ned, and the extravagantly unexpurgated Laird is familiar territory, ripe to be mined for comedy. It is surprising, then, that this film isn't funnier than it is. The characters might have been drawn more broadly, but Cranston reins Ned back to the extent that he is a person rather than a caricature and, surprisingly, so does Franco, albeit less so. And so we get two real people both struggling with their own conflicting mindsets in the best interests of Stephanie who isn't always co-operating with them. Among the large brushstrokes of Laird's crassness and ridiculous works of art, and Ned's kneejerk horror, we have a genuine drama of real people trying to make real accommodations and, while it may be dramatically credible, it's not particularly funny.Which is why we have the daftly hilarious Gustav (Keegan Michael-Key) as Laird's preposterous estate manager, and a short but comical routine with a rather baked Barb coming on to a husband whose mind is elsewhere. Less amusing are the hacking, paperless toilet, and moose p!ss sequences.As a comedy this came across rather unsuccessfully to me, although I quite liked it because I quite liked the characters in it, even Laird.

I love Franco, I loved This Is The End, love Jonah Hill, and Bryan Cranston. I wanted to love this movie. I like stupid comedies. But they have to be at least a little bit funny. This isn't. Not even a tiny bit. Not one chuckle, just cringed... a lot. God awful. Key, honey, nice effort, but it was beyond help. Watching with someone who thought City Slickers 2 was quality humor and even he didn't laugh. Truly that low.

Was this supposed to be a comedy?There was a gag about sitting on a Japanese toilet and number twos smelling bad. There was a gag about a Siri-like version of Kaley Cuoco. An assistant called Gustav with pantomime accent. Also Kiss, the actual members of the band, humiliating themselves. Lots of hilarious uses of the words sh*t, f**k, t*tties, motor-boating and others that IMDb won't let me type. All this with a story line of old manufacturing business vs Silicon Valley startup millions, and a dad vs daughter's boyfriend story. And you can imagine how these predictable plot lines end.It was dreadful from beginning to end and two hours long.