Why Him?
Why Him?
R | 23 December 2016 (USA)
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A dad forms a bitter rivalry with his daughter's young rich boyfriend.

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Sexyloutak

Absolutely the worst movie.

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CrawlerChunky

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

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BallWubba

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

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Rio Hayward

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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math_janvmj

To be honest, this movie is quite funny overall. My real interest was, and I think this was the goal of the movie in a way, is the focus on being able to code and build your own company. Nowadays, people that can code and create apps are the future. They are freelancers and good people make tons of money. Thats exactly what this movie is all about. We all know the creator of Facebook or Microsoft, but every company has their own owner. I rated 9 because the story is great and I think it can push you to think about being able to code and what could happen if you were able to.

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Neil Welch

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.

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barbaraineslucena-04982

If you're looking for a movie that's going to make you laugh from beginning to end, this is the one!

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shelley-bourdon

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.

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