Note: This film is only available on Disney +
Michael's Movie Grade: F
Bottom of the barrel family film
This may be a remake of a 2003 movie that is a remake of a 1950 movie, but even if those previous films didn't exist, there would be no reason to recommend this terrible movie. When you put this movie on the TV, there are only two options. It will either become background noise while you do something else, or it will drive you into pure boredom. If you want to actually sit down and watch a movie watch pretty much anything else. Though this is technically a comedy, I did not laugh once through its entire runtime. Most of these jokes either feel completely phoned in or trying too hard to feel hip and modern. The humor is not only unfunny, but it is painfully bad. There were many times throughout the course of this movie when I let out a loud a great big groan at a joke then muttered under my breath "I hate this movie." The characters themselves are as bland and boring as possible. They have little personality outside of some stereotypical movie character traits and what is necessary to move the story along. It is impossible to care about what happens to them because you never once believe that they are real people. The storyline is a mess. Rather than feeling like a feature length movie, this storyline feels like a messy hodgepodge of various episodes of a bad TV sitcom. None of these various story points are very well integrated and none of them are very interesting on their own. This film also tries to have some social commentary. While I appreciate a family film trying to have a serious talk about racism, it is not very well handled. Instead, it feels heavy-handed and forced. When in the beginning, you learn that the dogs' names are bad puns of Obama and Biden's names, you can already see how forced the social and political commentary is going to be throughout the movie. The worst thing about this movie is that there is not one good thing I can say about it.
Avoid at all costs.
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