Salt Lake Tribune Review
This excruciating comedy tests the limits of how many shots to the crotch a movie can show, or an audience can absorb.
Robin Williams and
John Travolta play Dan and Charlie, business partners whose lives are rocked when Dan learns -- because of a wild Miami night with Vicki (
Kelly Preston, a k a Mrs. Travolta) seven years earlier -- that he is the father of twins (Conner Rayburn and
Ella Bleu Travolta). Dan and Charlie end up watching the kids, revealing their cluelessness at child-rearing. (For example, Dan not knowing a 7-year-old can fly solo in a toilet stall.) The movie lurches from one awful situation to the next, setting up painfully unfunny gags and trotting out several slumming stars -- including
Matt Dillon,
Justin Long, Ann-Margret and the late
Bernie Mac. Director
Walt Becker ("Wild Hogs") never met a bad joke that he couldn't make worse with hammy acting and sledgehammer editing.
-- Sean P. Means
The rundown: Robin Williams finds himself an instant dad, aided by his business partner (
John Travolta), in this painfully unfunny slapstick comedy. 88 minutes. (SPM)
Synopsis: Two best friends -- one unlucky-in-love divorcee and the other a fun-loving bachelor -- have their lives turned upside down when they're unexpectedly charged with the care of 7-year-old twins while on the verge of the biggest business deal of their lives. The not-so-kid-savvy bachelors stumble in their efforts to take care of the twins, leading to one debacle after another, and perhaps to a new-found understanding of what's really important in life.
