An average movie

To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much from this flick but since it starred Steve Martin, I thought I should give it a try. Through the years, I kept trying with Steve Martin, I gave him the benefit of the doubt so many times but, eventually, I came to conclusion that most of his movies are actually rather worthless. I mean, he has made a few good movies, not many though, and I’m pretty sure I can count them on one hand (for a career including more than 40 movies and going over more than 3 decades, it is pretty pathetic in my opinion). Anyway, this time, we have here a tired remake of an old family feature and the end-result was pretty weak. The first question that you might ask is was the original version anything good to start with? I have seriously no idea and this remake is not really awful whatsoever but the whole thing was just purely routine. Indeed, the plot was not interesting, the characters were not interesting either, the jokes were not really funny and I really had a hard time to care about the whole thing. To conclude, it is a really average and boring flick and it is not really worth a look, I’m afraid.

5/10