You won't be disappointed!

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

When daughter Alex is denied the university scholarship the town had promised her (because creepy head councilman Bob has embezzled it), Scott and Kate team up with down-on-his-luck friend Frank to start an unlicensed casino in his house, with the intention of running it through the summer and then using the profits for Kate's tuition and to save Frank defaulting on his mortgage.This film is deeply silly. It is also consistently funny. I watched it in a small auditorium with about 20 people, and there was frequent laughing out loud. There is a lot of bad language, some violence, some drug misuse, some sexual frankness (though, as usual, no nudity), so it is very much ini the modern style of being crude, crass, tasteless and offensive, but it always remembers to be funny.Will Ferrell's Scott is an idiot when necessary (he can't cope with numbers) and scarily competent at others - the character is completely inconsistent, depending on the demands of the plot. Yet it works well enough. There are similar character inconsistencies with both Kate and Frank, yet you are prepared to overlook this because they are likeable characters, and you want them to get away with their activities despite, how can I put this, the dismemberments etc. they are responsible for.There is a fairly extensive supporting cast, all of whom are well enough drawn that you enjoy seeing what they are doing, and the various mishaps which happen to them. The violence is graphic but slapstick.I was always interested to see where the story was going - it wasn't always where I expected. And I enjoyed spending time with these daft people in their foolish but funny story.

There are only maybe two or three moments in 'The House (2017)' that made me audibly chuckle - 'chuckle' being the operative word because nothing escaped my lips that came close to what I'd qualify as a full blown 'laugh' - and only a couple more that provoked even a smile. In fact, the funniest moment occurs in the gag-reel, which doesn't count because that's not actually part of the movie. It fails as a comedy and essentially fails as a film, too, though not spectacularly so because, while it is passably entertaining, it is painfully forgettable and, even when the contrivances of the plot come into play - which are indeed contrivances in every sense of the word, nothing stands out and even less surprises. 5/10

Probably not the greatest story line for a movie, especially one with will Ferrell in but the actors genuinely make this a funny film.

I'm a Will Ferrel fan. But this, it's just horriable! Actors are great, which is what makes you interested in the movie, but very badly done and script writing is below average. I really wanted to like this! :( Please don't waste your time!