WARNING: SPOILER ALERT - the following discusses plot points, but you might want to read on anyway to save two hours of your lifespan! Or don't read it, watch the movie, and then come back and read the reviews to see if you actually "got" this movie! This is also written to bring closure to those who have spent the two hours watching it.
The overall plot was used previously in another Lifetime movie no doubt. Crazy girl, bad boyfriend fresh out of prison wanting his money, a child about to die because she needs her meds, and parents in a dysfunctional marriage with a secret held by one against the other allowing "crazy girl" to enter stage left, scene one.
Is this movie a parody of Lifetime movies or other movies that revolve around "crazy girl" replacing a wife and making the wife's family her own? The predictable script does not let on to this possibility other than in a few spots such as Will Ferrell's character standing in the middle of the road to face off "crazy girl" without so much as a drip of blood coming from his two wounds, one of which appeared earlier as fatal. (It's highly unlikely that he'd be knocked out cold by two flesh wounds and even less likely that his wounds would both stop bleeding without immediate medical attention.)
Another possible parody moment was the garage door opening scene. The garage was filled with far too much exhaust for any human being to emerge from it without hacking his guts out. Will emerging from a cloud of deadly exhaust appearing to breath normally, looked like Superman with Lois in his arms, back-lit with a glow. That smells of parody or very bad direction, take your pick. Will "speeding" off to the rescue in an incredibly slow moving boat with a very serious look on his face smelled like parody too.
Still, most of the movie was not at all funny, or even suspiciously funny, so what was the point of that please? Furthermore, there was not a lot in the dialogue to suggest that this was in fact a parody. The sheriff asking after he had heard the entire story of Will and "crazy woman," (paraphrased) "Do you think they could be together?" could have been one such line. That must be ranked among the stupidest lines ever written in a movie, and if it was not in fact meant to be a stupid line appropriate for a parody, then we must conclude that the line is just an awful line. The movie is otherwise mostly predictable, with the "manner of pregnancy" of "crazy girl" being nearly the only surprise. Were you really surprised that the bad boyfriend was just behind the organic foods co-worker who had snapped one too many branches on his rescue mission? His death was not funny, just cruel. Where's the parody in that?
The scene with Will's incredibly awkward dancing with his family that went on longer than any sane director would have allowed, just iced the cake of this movie's demise.
In sum, this was either a poorly written parody or a poorly written violent though almost entirely predictable drama, acted about as well as it could have been acted (hence my higher rating than the 1 for the script).
Note to actors: next time you might want to turn this sort of script down. Note to screenplay writer: you need a lot of practice. Note to viewers: I'd sorry for your loss...of time. And that is not a "spiteful comment," because I'm really, really sorry for your loss. Or is this just a parody of a hardhearted reviewer? You decide! ; )
P.S. I think this movie was deliberately written to thoroughly confuse us all and is therefore brilliant! (Just kidding....but maybe it is...regardless, you'll never have closure on this movie or on this review. ; ))
The overall plot was used previously in another Lifetime movie no doubt. Crazy girl, bad boyfriend fresh out of prison wanting his money, a child about to die because she needs her meds, and parents in a dysfunctional marriage with a secret held by one against the other allowing "crazy girl" to enter stage left, scene one.
Is this movie a parody of Lifetime movies or other movies that revolve around "crazy girl" replacing a wife and making the wife's family her own? The predictable script does not let on to this possibility other than in a few spots such as Will Ferrell's character standing in the middle of the road to face off "crazy girl" without so much as a drip of blood coming from his two wounds, one of which appeared earlier as fatal. (It's highly unlikely that he'd be knocked out cold by two flesh wounds and even less likely that his wounds would both stop bleeding without immediate medical attention.)
Another possible parody moment was the garage door opening scene. The garage was filled with far too much exhaust for any human being to emerge from it without hacking his guts out. Will emerging from a cloud of deadly exhaust appearing to breath normally, looked like Superman with Lois in his arms, back-lit with a glow. That smells of parody or very bad direction, take your pick. Will "speeding" off to the rescue in an incredibly slow moving boat with a very serious look on his face smelled like parody too.
Still, most of the movie was not at all funny, or even suspiciously funny, so what was the point of that please? Furthermore, there was not a lot in the dialogue to suggest that this was in fact a parody. The sheriff asking after he had heard the entire story of Will and "crazy woman," (paraphrased) "Do you think they could be together?" could have been one such line. That must be ranked among the stupidest lines ever written in a movie, and if it was not in fact meant to be a stupid line appropriate for a parody, then we must conclude that the line is just an awful line. The movie is otherwise mostly predictable, with the "manner of pregnancy" of "crazy girl" being nearly the only surprise. Were you really surprised that the bad boyfriend was just behind the organic foods co-worker who had snapped one too many branches on his rescue mission? His death was not funny, just cruel. Where's the parody in that?
The scene with Will's incredibly awkward dancing with his family that went on longer than any sane director would have allowed, just iced the cake of this movie's demise.
In sum, this was either a poorly written parody or a poorly written violent though almost entirely predictable drama, acted about as well as it could have been acted (hence my higher rating than the 1 for the script).
Note to actors: next time you might want to turn this sort of script down. Note to screenplay writer: you need a lot of practice. Note to viewers: I'd sorry for your loss...of time. And that is not a "spiteful comment," because I'm really, really sorry for your loss. Or is this just a parody of a hardhearted reviewer? You decide! ; )
P.S. I think this movie was deliberately written to thoroughly confuse us all and is therefore brilliant! (Just kidding....but maybe it is...regardless, you'll never have closure on this movie or on this review. ; ))