When their father passes away, four grown siblings are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week, along with their over-sharing mother and an assortment of spouses, exes and might-have-beens.
Night At The Museum’s Shawn Levy steers an overextended TV sitcom with a funereal sense of fun.
A starry ensemble cast...keeps your attention, but cheap gags detract from some of the more keenly observed humour.
A dream cast are on good form in a film that makes you want to call your siblings, but very glad you don’t live with them.
The cast promises much but this bittersweet fam-com backfires. Levy’s grown-up bid leaves you wanting another night at the museum.
Pretty insulting when you stop and think about it.
Entertaining enough but very mild.
Replace the words “leave you” in the title with “throw up”.
Shawn Levy's comedy-drama about a grieving American family is too smug and sanctimonious to take advantage of its top-notch cast.
Live-wire talents like Bateman, Tina Fey and Adam Driver do occasionally break through the set-up’s strictures to make this mildly entertaining.
It can’t quite shake off a sense of contrivance and lacks the requisite laughs and emotion.
There are a few enjoyable moments, with Fey and Fonda making you wish they had a movie of their own, but sadly the narrative is more concerned with the boys, whose relationship crises are altogether more formulaic and less interesting.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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