Too bad the cast looked so promising. However judging by the numerous reviews that I have read/seen this is yet another movie doomed to exist in the land of lost opportunities.
I think Alonso has a soft spot for shitty comedies (This, Movie 43, Boo! A Madea Halloween), which is fine, guilty pleasures, or whatever, but still, yikes.
Movies are rated against themselves and what they are trying to accomplish and not necessarily against each other. What if you gave Casino and Step Brothers both an 8, does that mean they are the same or if you gave Step brothers an 8.5 its better than Casino? Not really they are different movies graded on different scales.
You don't get much financial aid when your parents have enough money to buy a house like that. They're clearly both house-poor AND haven't made enough equity in the home or they'd maybe just take out a 2nd mortgage, but that wouldn't make for a funny movie. Nor would it being a for really financially strapped family to be the butt of these jokes.
The people in this movie are the funniest people around. Yet the movie itself is a letdown. If they had actually let the riff the entire movie it would've been better.
You need to hire someone to keep Alonso in check. His opinions are consistently in the moment nonsense...or self indulgent nonsense. Either way nonsense.
Wow, Alonso gives Baby Driver 4.5 and this one a 5. One should really look at their prior rating to ensure it's on a correct sliding scale. This along with the prior review of Bad Santa 2 which he gave a 6 should create more questions for his other reviews.
That's one of Alonso's deals, when he gets disgusted with a movie he gets really disgusted and he wants to make that clear with a very low rating. I'm like that sometimes, I just hate a movie so much I lose all desire to be fair and balanced. I feel that way about the Godfather.
Frank Yu Alonso and most critics I know don't rate movies comparatively. They rate based on how well the movie succeeds in relation to its own goals. It is the most common approach in reviewing with rating scales but I understand how it can confuse people.
I'm tired of people using a few reviews that someone makes and tries to invalidate all of their reviews. I've seen users (such as you) give Avatar, Titanic, Marvel movies, extremely popular movies and classic films bad reviews, whereas most loved it. So does that mean we should never listen to you? Or could it be people may have wildly varying opinions on mainstream movies? You aren't obligated to follow the pack. Also, Alonso actually articulates (very well) why he doesn't like something. If he hates a movie, he won't hate it just because he didn't like someone's haircut, let's just say. He'll give ample reasons why something didn't click - he may respect the effort but may not be fully on board with the execution.
Right, Roger Ebert kept getting hate mail because he gave Tomb Raider (the old Angelina Jolie one) three stars. And then some serious Oscar-bait drama comes out and gets 2.5 or 2 stars, and people were YELLING at Ebert to resign film criticism for liking Tomb Raider more than a serious modern drama (I'm being serious here). He explained that reviews should be seen as more self-contained within their own genres. Tomb Raider (for him) kind of accomplished what it set out to do for the video game/action movie genre. He is not comparing them to There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men.
