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Director: Rick Famuyiwa
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From Time Out London
Fathers know foolishness best in this culture-clash family comedy, which presides over a cursed union of slushy sentimentality and dim humour. Two lovebirds (Lance Gross, America Ferrera) wreak havoc among their clans by announcing their intention to marry. Such news upsets their not-so-proud pops – a playboy radio personality (Forest Whitaker) and a clingy car-restorer (Carlos Mencia) – who begin volleying racial and class-based insults at each other.Paternal bickering and egomaniacal prejudices soon give way to slapstick fighting, which leads to clichéd crises and reconciliations as predictable as the script’s slurs are tame. A variety of side players fulfil the stereotype quota, with African-Americans represented as party-hearty lotharios and Mexicans as traditionalist kooks. Aside from an uncomfortable Mencia, who cowers before the camera, the cast is efficient – though that’s not the same as coming out of this unscathed. It’ll take years of yeoman’s work for Whitaker to repair his reputation after allowing himself to be humped by a goat on Viagra.
Author: Nick Schager
Time Out London Issue 2078: 17 - 23 June, 2010
Cast & crew
Director: Rick Famuyiwa
Cast: Forest Whitaker, America Ferrera, Lance Gross, Carlos Mencia
Genre(s): Comedy
Rated: 12A
Duration: 103 mins
UK Release: May 14 2010
US Release: Mar 12 2010
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