Two men find themselves caring for a ten year-old boy.
The forgettable title and cookie-cutter concept may seem lazy, but Coogan and Rudd work their asses off to make Erasmus and Paul the most memorable screen gay men since The Birdcage. It’s caustic, authentic, and very, very funny.
Ideal Home is completely predictable and very sentimental, but comfortingly entertaining as it breezes past.
Often crass, generally bewildering.
Ideal Home may not startle us with its plot twists but it’s a good deal fresher and more irreverent than most family fables – and it never gets too preachy either.
The film is chary of the cynicism or satire that it initially appears to be serving up. There are simply no funny lines here.
Every joke’s punchline is that these characters are gay, making it difficult to understand who exactly, in 2018, the film hopes to make laugh.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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