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Camper - wrote on 04/19/2015
This movie. Yeah, I just don't know about this movie. In all honesty, it kind of made me a little sick; it was just so uncomfortable and it was especially difficult to view after the somewhat recent death of Robin Williams. The connections between the movie and his eventual suicide are much too apparent to sit well with me. God, sometimes you could just look at his face, like that hopeless, beaten down by the world face, and everything would just hurt. It makes you wonder if he even had to stretch himself all that much to play the role of someone so depressed. The film's look at how humans romanticize the dead isn't really a new concept but I think it was well represented here, even if had its choppy moments here and there. The end scene with his next door neighbor and that kid Andrew …
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World Greatest Dad review
Daniel Corleone - wrote on 12/03/2012
A black comedy that is actually funny, but turns very dark towards the middle of the film. This critic feels Robin Williams has the penchant for the genre (Death to Smoochy, Fisher King, etc.). Lance Clayton (Robin Williams) is a single father who dreams of becoming an author and has a sex obsessive son Kyle (Daryl Sabara). Williams was really good and absorbed his role here while Sabara provided solid support.
Plot was really dark but the humorous scenes were laughable. Lacks character development on the leads, how Lance became a single dad and how Kyle became the way he is since his father is a teacher in the school he goes too. Soundtrack was well picked and who couldn't forget Bruce Hornsby's appearance. Word's Greatest Dad is a good dark comedy about being a father when a …
