Submitted by katiecharm t3_ztze72 in movies
I remember this movie as a funny childhood romp, but wow has it aged poorly. It seems it came from an era when being a philandering creepy asshole was seen as funny behavior, and now it comes off as just incredibly cringey.
The dad is supposed to be the main character, and we are supposed to be rooting for him to succeed - but he’s such a total douche to everyone around him. I guess this is so when bad things constantly happen to him you don’t feel bad about laughing, except his asshole behavior drags down all the rest of the characters too.
And I get it. It’s not real life. It’s a comedy movie.
But I don’t think I want to watch 90 minutes of bad things happening to a bad person - that’s not fun. My wife didn’t want to rewatch it because she said “he’s a total abusive asshole to his beautiful supportive wife the whole movie” and I was like “he was? I don’t remember that” and damn he sure is. File this one away with Revenge of the Nerds and let’s never speak of it again.
On the other hand, we just rewatched Home Alone and Brady Bunch Movie and those both still totally hold up.
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edit: wow the people that like this movie and defend it sure are calm and kind people.