Let's be realistic.

How sad is this?

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

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!

'Why Him?' is a Christmas-set 'Meet The Parents' (and is produced by Ben Stiller), from the director of 'Along Came Polly' and 'I Love You, Man', so you know what kind of humour to expect. The plot is just Stephanie (Deutch) trying to convince her parents, Ned (Cranston) & Barb (Mullally) to like her new boyfriend, Laird (Franco). It doesn't help that he's 10 years older (16 years older in real life!), a billionaire and has no filter!Franco plays his usual loveable doofus, Cranston is great as the straight-man with some moments of madness, but Deutch, Mullally, Cedric The Entertainer and Gluck are underutilised. Keegan-Michael Key does get plenty of chances to shine as Gustav, a German(?) "butler" who is also Laird's martial arts trainer/best friend. Kaley Cuoco also has a pretty funny cameo-type role. There's plenty of sight gags and prat-falls, and an amusing bit with a digital toilet that solves the plot at the end.There's good use of KISS - both "Rock & Roll All Nite" and the 2-3min cameo from Paul & Gene at the end! Franco pretty much steals every scene he's in, with his loveable charm and smile and goofy remarks. It's a fun film, but could be a little quicker and doesn't quite achieve greatness.

I didn't expect a Christmas movie. All styles have been made and it's a challenge to make something different I guess. Once again here, James Franco is ambiguously gay. The lair of Laird is a magical world (Elon Musk cameo, btw) and it's very strange how we feel after the family returns home. But then Laird shows up by helicopter, and two surviving members of Kiss. It get strange again. Funny to have Kiss lead play the triangle while they sign a plain song. Conclusion: if you can stand Homer-sexual references, potty jokes and potty mouthing in a film, you can make it through mildly amused, but mostly intrigued by what's next.

Knowing nothing about this movie beforehand, I had no expectations when I began to watch Why Him? And since I was feeling ill at the time (too drained to do anything other than watch a movie on my Amazon Prime/HBO channel) I was thinking that I would probably fall asleep before I got to the middle of the movie. That's not what happened. I just about laughed my head off throughout the whole thing. Unfortunately, each time I began to laugh that caused my cough to start up again, and then I would get to coughing so hard that I'd start hacking up great big wads of phlegm (and my dog would hop up off her bed and rush over to me to place her paw in my lap, her eyes full of worry; she probably thought I was dying). But, man oh man, it was great to laugh so hard on a day when I was feeling so under the weather.Why Him? is definitely one of the funniest movies I've ever seen, and because it made me laugh so hard (so many, many times), I'm giving it a 10 as well as a hearty thumbs-up.