Why Him? features comedic talent, a gazillion F-bombs, and tons of crude jokes

Movie Title:    Why Him?

Grade:  D

Rating:  R, 111 minutes

• In a Nutshell:  This film definitely earns its R rating for every reason. 
•  If you use a language or content filter when you watch this movie on DVD, it will basically be a 5 minute silent movie.  It’s FILLED with trashy, raunchy humor.  There is a LOT of inappropriate behavior, images, and language. 

Uplifting theme: 

• “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” – Ned Fleming (Bryan Cranston)

Woah.  Chills.” – Laird Mayhew (James Franco)

• Give people a chance to be who they are.

Things I liked:

• The cast includes GREAT comedic talent: James Franco, Bryan Cranston, Megan Mullally, and Keegan-Michael Key.  They all have excellent comedic timing and an even spread of funny lines between them. 
• Awesome toilets!  (Not the potty mouths.)
• Did you know Kelly Cuoco from The Big Bang Theory: Season 9 was the voice of Justine? 
• I liked that they got real celebrities to play themselves: Elon Musk, Steve Aoki, Richard Blais,  and Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley from KISS!
• I admit it.  I laughed out loud a few times.
• There's a reference from the movie The Pink Panther (2006) Did you ever see that movie?  Pretty fun.
• “Kevin!” (video clip from Home Alone)  I love it when movies reference other movies.

Things I didn’t like:

• Have you ever known anyone without filters?  Weird, right?.... and yet oddly refreshing.
• Director John Hamburg recycles a plot that is completely predictable with nothing particularly new to see.
• There were some other good comedy actors in the movie, but they were only given teeny, tiny parts: Adam DeVine, Andrew Rannells, Cedric the Entertainer, and Casey Wilson.
• They started to create a character who worked for Laird and did degrading jobs while he uttered “Pay my student loans, pay my student loans”, but then they didn’t keep the gag going very long.
• It always bugs me when they make child actors say and do crude things.
• There were scenes advertised in the trailer that never made it into the actual movie.  

Funny lines:

• “I feel like I’m so normal.” – Laird
• “Scotty, shut it and eat your paper.” – Ned
• “You think you’re at war with Laird, but he’s not fighting.  It’s just you.” – Barb Fleming
• “I’m going straight to hell just for typing this.” – Ned
• “I’m down to my last 97 million…197 million.” – Laird

“Barely scraping by.” - Barb

Tips for parents:   

• This is a Rated R movie for a reason.  It’s an even trashier version of Meet the Parents .  You really do NOT want your kids to watch this garbage.
• The language is really, really bad.  There is barely a sentence without profanity. Gustav explains, “He speaks English and you speak English with resounding amounts of F***!”  There are about a million F-bombs.
• You see James Franco's rear end.
• You see Bryan Cranston sitting on the toilet.  Of course, that's nothing new if you ever watched Malcolm In the Middle (loved it!) or Breaking Bad: The Complete Series   I don't know what it is about Bryan Cranston, but he loves to be seen in his underwear.