Father Figures

Father Figures, which finished shooting more than two years ago before spending endless months without a release date, is both meandering and bloated, suggesting the Frankensteinian result of brutal test screenings.

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Just what dudes the world over have been waiting for — a “Mamma Mia!” to call their own.

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Helms is the saving grace. In the opening comedy of manners, his seething rage at his annoying family seems well-justified.

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“Father Figures” is what you might call a bastard comedy, and not just for the fact that it was once boldly titled “Bastards” and tells of two twins (played by Ed Helms and Owen Wilson) road-tripping to find their biological father.

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Coasting from tired situation to tired situation, this mealy road trip comedy strains one’s patience for raunchy bickerfests.

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Ed Helms and Owen Wilson are bickering brothers out to learn who their father is in a buddy road comedy that turns "healing" into tedium.

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Distinguished mainly by its overqualified cast and lack of inspiration, Father Figures can’t decide whether it’s a gross-out comedy or an uplifting tale of brotherly love; it embraces the worst of both worlds.

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Father Figures is a movie, ostensibly. I'm pretty sure it is. Moving images were projected, along with recorded sound, which indicates it is a movie, but the effect was so listless, low-energy and profoundly unentertaining that I jotted down in my notes "what even IS this?" It would be more accurate to describe the experience as a nearly two-hour borderline hostage situation, with torture involving bad, offensive and unfunny "comedy."

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