Why Him? (2016)

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Directed by

John Hamburg

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Zoey Deutch
Stephanie Fleming

James Franco
Laird Mayhew

Tangie Ambrose
Patty Dunne

Cedric the Entertainer
Lou Dunne

Bob Stephenson
Jerry in Graphics

Bryan Cranston
Ned Fleming

Megan Mullally
Barb Fleming

Zack Pearlman
Kevin Dingle

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John Hamburg
(screenplay by)

Ian Helfer
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Why Him? Official Red Band Trailer 1 (2016)

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7 years, 11 months ago at Apr 30 2:07

BAMF

Neutral Notes:
*I was curious about this one mostly because I typically take Bryan Cranston seriously and I wanted to see how he did comedy.
*Mind you I have honestly never really watched Malcolm in the Middle.
*This type of humor would be vastly different as well.
*I chose to check this out because my wife's friend suggested it to her and she had been asking me about it s... read more

An average movie

3 years, 2 months ago at Jan 7 12:01

johanlefourbe

To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much from the damned thing but since there was a decent cast involved and since it was available on Disney+, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, as expected, the damned thing turned out to be pretty lame, I’m afraid. Basically, they took the concept of ‘Meet The Parents’, except that, this time, it was the other way around as the parents were visi... read more

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A dad forms a bitter rivalry with his daughter's young rich boyfriend.

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johanlefourbe posted a review 3 years, 2 months ago

An average movie

“To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much from the damned thing but since there was a decent cast involved and since it was available on Disney+, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, as expected, the damned thing turned out to be pretty lame, I’m afraid. Basically, they took the concept of ‘Meet The Parents’, except that, this time, it was the other way around as the parents were visiting their future son-in-law. In fact, I didn’t know anything about this flick before watching the damned thing and, because of the poster, I actually expected James Franco’s character to be some kind of a bump or a stoner like in ‘Pineapple Express’. Anyway, it didn’t really matter because his character turned out to be seriously obnoxious. Of course, you could argue that it was done on” read more