Anticipated this movie. Very disappointed. If this was intended to be a spoof of Lifetime's melodramas, it failed abysmally. Waaaay too subtle for me.
Script - Stunk. Could have been written by a team of 12 year olds, stupified by PopTarts and Dr Pepper. Generic dialogue and plot. A 'thriller' with no thrills. Predictable. Included every stereotype and cliché. All, I assume, intentional to elicit booming laughter. A fail.
Note to writer, Andrew Steele (former writer for SNL): If parody was your objective, exaggeration....blowing things out of proportion.... is needed. That was missing....so the viewer was left to make some kind of sense of it, one way or other. Not an enjoyable task. Irritating.
Acting - Stunk. Looked forward to seeing Wiig and Ferrel either in a spoof or in serious roles. Still waiting. Robotic acting with painfully slow takes (meant to be funny?) and little emotional range (same reason?) Caricatures? Missed the mark by miles.
Directing - Stunk...ie...Closely following the bad guy's car on a dirt road and parking a stone's throw from his cabin...in day light? Really? Really? Kid is missing and Mom is not moved a bit.
Neither comedy or drama....though the family's extended 'dance' scene in the end was worthy of a smirk.
If the whole thing was a 'gag'...success at last! You made me gag.
Could have been a clever parody. Wasn't. A waste of time and talent.
Script - Stunk. Could have been written by a team of 12 year olds, stupified by PopTarts and Dr Pepper. Generic dialogue and plot. A 'thriller' with no thrills. Predictable. Included every stereotype and cliché. All, I assume, intentional to elicit booming laughter. A fail.
Note to writer, Andrew Steele (former writer for SNL): If parody was your objective, exaggeration....blowing things out of proportion.... is needed. That was missing....so the viewer was left to make some kind of sense of it, one way or other. Not an enjoyable task. Irritating.
Acting - Stunk. Looked forward to seeing Wiig and Ferrel either in a spoof or in serious roles. Still waiting. Robotic acting with painfully slow takes (meant to be funny?) and little emotional range (same reason?) Caricatures? Missed the mark by miles.
Directing - Stunk...ie...Closely following the bad guy's car on a dirt road and parking a stone's throw from his cabin...in day light? Really? Really? Kid is missing and Mom is not moved a bit.
Neither comedy or drama....though the family's extended 'dance' scene in the end was worthy of a smirk.
If the whole thing was a 'gag'...success at last! You made me gag.
Could have been a clever parody. Wasn't. A waste of time and talent.