This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
So many things happen that go fucking nowhere for no payoff. Custody observer lady witnesses Kylo nearly killing himself by mistake, but he still gets 45/55 custody. And he doesn't die. And his kid didn't notice so why do it at all? It would've been perfect evidence against him as like a "suicide attempt" leading to obvious claims of mental instability and a dangerous environment in which to raise Henry. But nobody cared.
Why did you dicks bring asshole lawyers…
Why are the Coens so good at telling completely pointless stories?
That's all. Oh, and that one scene where Larry and his neighbor are high as fuck and the record is skipping in the foreground of the audio mix is super real.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
"...with over two million hits on YouTube in just two weeks!"
Translation: how do you do, fellow kids?
Ways this movie is stupid, in whatever order they pop into my head. I saw this yesterday.
1. The aforementioned stupid YouTube thing at the end. There are content creators that can pull those numbers consistently that somehow nobody watches. Two million views is nothing anymore.
2. The leads fall in love because... What? She was really impossibly pretty? So was literally…
It's the anti-Paddington.
I don't know who I'm supposed to root for here. In the opening scenes I was rooting for the old man because all he wanted was to tend his garden. Throughout the entire thing I was rooting against Peter and his thieving dirtbag relatives because they were just constantly doing increasingly awful shit to ruin Mr. McGregor's life.
The writing consisted entirely of "hey look at that weird thing. That's funny right? We're pointing it out so…
