I'm thankful I'm a healthy person. I am fully-satisfied with my cable service in my own home. I have 70-some channels, 50+ not counting all the infomercial ones and the unavoidable evangelists. The only thing lacking in my package which I wish were included are the Sci-Fi and TCM channels - but that aside, I'm happy with a good large-screen t.v., just the simple cable connection, and need no other bells, whistles, equipment boxes, etc. So I would not have caught this flick if I weren't visiting friends over a long holiday weekend. They have the big plasma set, and it seems about several hundred channels. While they were on an errand, I surfed to a channel I don't get. This movie was just beginning, and my initial curiosity led to my watching the whole thing, thoroughly fascinated by it.
I suppose I have to classify this as a "spoiler" under this site's parameters, but I can't imagine anyone regarding this as a suspenseful story where one must not be aware of its ending (anyhow, you can see it coming from a mile down the road).
Why I'm glad I am healthy is that towards the end. Robert Foxworthy actually says, "We need to get some perspective on this." Upon hearing this line, I literally choked for a few moments laughing - was in no danger., but if weaker, might have passed-out.
This guy has a conventional marriage, wife and sons. He then has a "love-child" with young Michelle Greene, and after a lot of initial nonsense, and their daughter being merged into his first family - he tells his wife Michelle wants the young girl back. This provides her with the angst one would expect, but she readily accepts, since hubby happens to be an important lawyer.
But he then proceeds to marry young Michelle (before a judge, yet), and to establish a second family with her and the young daughter. Over the course of the film, this moron juggles both families, then runs for judge, with billboards with his name an face all over - and even runs into the judge at an election party with his "first" wife, and simply denies he's the man the judge married to Michelle.
Of course, the daughter discovers the ruse - when she applies for a job and her name appears in their checking her out - finding the record of her having lived at Foxworthy's first family's address in lieu of the one she had listed (it's government-related, of course, and this must be clarified). She, of course visits the "first family's" house; she runs away with her boyfriend, and when Foxworthy comes to their trailer, and has the gall to admonishes them both, she flees in the boyfriend's jeep. Naturally, she is killed at 100 mph, and the same reporter (who interviewed him in his race where he was elected judge) now must inquire about the dead girl's name, who she is, etc.
All the time this bastard acts as if he's the one bearing the burdens, only wants the best for his family, and has the temerity to make the fore-mentioned comment that "we need to get...perspective..." In "The Jerk," Steve Martin played Navin Johnson, perhaps the most stupid character ever in filmdom. But this was meant to be an over-the top comedic character, all was funny, and Steve Martin does over-the-top comedic characters better than anyone.
In this flick, Foxworthy's Leonard finally presents someone more stupid even than Navin. But here it was unintended, and "Robert Foxworthy is no Steve Martin." Many of the characters in this film are pretty dumb. The rest are pretty much insipid. But all are "funny." Watch it for the latter.
I suppose I have to classify this as a "spoiler" under this site's parameters, but I can't imagine anyone regarding this as a suspenseful story where one must not be aware of its ending (anyhow, you can see it coming from a mile down the road).
Why I'm glad I am healthy is that towards the end. Robert Foxworthy actually says, "We need to get some perspective on this." Upon hearing this line, I literally choked for a few moments laughing - was in no danger., but if weaker, might have passed-out.
This guy has a conventional marriage, wife and sons. He then has a "love-child" with young Michelle Greene, and after a lot of initial nonsense, and their daughter being merged into his first family - he tells his wife Michelle wants the young girl back. This provides her with the angst one would expect, but she readily accepts, since hubby happens to be an important lawyer.
But he then proceeds to marry young Michelle (before a judge, yet), and to establish a second family with her and the young daughter. Over the course of the film, this moron juggles both families, then runs for judge, with billboards with his name an face all over - and even runs into the judge at an election party with his "first" wife, and simply denies he's the man the judge married to Michelle.
Of course, the daughter discovers the ruse - when she applies for a job and her name appears in their checking her out - finding the record of her having lived at Foxworthy's first family's address in lieu of the one she had listed (it's government-related, of course, and this must be clarified). She, of course visits the "first family's" house; she runs away with her boyfriend, and when Foxworthy comes to their trailer, and has the gall to admonishes them both, she flees in the boyfriend's jeep. Naturally, she is killed at 100 mph, and the same reporter (who interviewed him in his race where he was elected judge) now must inquire about the dead girl's name, who she is, etc.
All the time this bastard acts as if he's the one bearing the burdens, only wants the best for his family, and has the temerity to make the fore-mentioned comment that "we need to get...perspective..." In "The Jerk," Steve Martin played Navin Johnson, perhaps the most stupid character ever in filmdom. But this was meant to be an over-the top comedic character, all was funny, and Steve Martin does over-the-top comedic characters better than anyone.
In this flick, Foxworthy's Leonard finally presents someone more stupid even than Navin. But here it was unintended, and "Robert Foxworthy is no Steve Martin." Many of the characters in this film are pretty dumb. The rest are pretty much insipid. But all are "funny." Watch it for the latter.
