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Why Him?

2016

John Hamburg

Bryan Cranston, James Franco, Zoey Deutch, Megan Mullally ...

5.0

5,894

Comedy A dad forms a bitter rivalry with his daughter's young rich boyfriend. Over the holidays, Ned (Bryan Cranston), an overprotective but loving dad and his family visit his daughter at Stanford, where he meets his biggest nightmare: her well-meaning but socially awkward Silicon Valley billionaire boyfriend, Laird (James Franco). The straight-laced Ned thinks Laird, who has absolutely no filter, is a wildly inappropriate match for his ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"‘Why Him?’ is no Christmas Classic, but at least James Franco packs a sack full of laughs (...) dumb, gross, and sometimes hilarious holiday movie"	NEU
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"'Why Him?' takes its potentially hilarious premise and does precious little with it (...) the results are particularly cringe-worthy"	NEG
United States	Jon Frosch The Hollywood Reporter	"A 111-minute marathon of slangy idioms and expletives, gross-out gags and unbridled raunch, some of it funny, much of it merely strenuous"	NEU
United Kingdom	Guy Lodge Time Out	"In trying to get us to like both opponents, the film undercuts most of its sharpest comic potential, leaving us instead with musty jokes (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEG
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"'Why Him?' takes a comic situation and then does everything it can to undermine it. It’s more than unfunny. It’s anti-funny"	NEG

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