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The House

2017

Andrew J. Cohen

Will Ferrell, Amy Poehler, Allison Tolman, Andrea Savage ...

4.6

1,084

Comedy A dad convinces his friends to start an illegal casino in his basement after he and his wife spend their daughter's college fund.

	Author	Review
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"[A] luckless effort (...) The plot developments that ruin all this fun make absolutely no sense in law-enforcement terms (...) Our heroes' solution to their dilemma is stupider still."	NEG
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler (...) are stuck in a bad bet of a comedy (...) Crude, slipshod, tonally uneven (...) [It] turns the extreme into the innocuous"	NEG
Ireland	Donald Clarke Irish Times	"This mirthless comedy feels like the result of terminal creative panic (...) Occasional dips into hyper-violent comedy serve simply to further confuse the picture (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"Watching 'The House' is a frustrating experience (...) [It] squanders its periodic funny ideas (...) by lacking pacing or a consistent tone."	NEG
Australia	Leigh Paatsch Herald Sun	"'The House' is capable of getting very funny very quickly when its goes off-script (...) This is an easy kill for a dependable number of laughs (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"'The House' is a fetid, cheap-looking, depressing and occasionally even mean-spirited disaster."	NEG
United Kingdom	Gwilym Mumford The Guardian	"Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler lose the bet (...) A baggy script and a tendency towards genre tropes (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Jordan Hoffman New York Daily News	"Director Andrew Jay Cohen is unsure whether he wants to play this material realistically or just grab at every possible gag (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Michael Nordine IndieWire	"Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler’s unfunny comedy is a bizarre endurance test (...) It elicits more eyerolls than laughter"	NEG
United Kingdom	Kate Muir The Times	"An outstanding candidate for the worst film of the year (...) [A] bilge, atrociously written and directed by Andrew Jay Cohen (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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