In Tyler Spindel’s feature, a young couple receive a surprise visit from the bride’s criminal-minded parents just before their wedding.
), a regular at Sandler’s Happy Madison shingle, and writers Ben Zazove and Evan Turner get all the comic mileage they can out of the generational divide separating the badass Billy and Lilly from the yawn-inducing Parker and Owen, who lead forgettable lives in humdrum suburbia.
The catch is that Owen manages a bank for a living — a bank that Billy and Lilly, who go by the generic nickname of the “Ghost Bandits,” wind up robbing so they can pay off the evil kingpin, Rehan , to whom they owe a sizeable debt. Owen soon figures out that the bandits are, in fact, his future in-laws, and when Parker is taken hostage by Rehan, he teams up with them to pull off an even bigger bank robbery to get her back, transforming from a milquetoast nobody into an unlikely hero.
The plot is entirely predictable and the jokes not always salvageable, especially zingers like, “I thought we defunded the police!” which Owen shouts while fleeing from the cops.
Devine’s antics are so broad that Owen hardly feels like a real person. The same could be said for his in-laws, although the 69-year-old Barkin and 70-year-old Brosnan bring a fair amount of experience and class to their rather unclassy characters, as well as a little gravitas to a movie that never takes itself too seriously. There’s a good story at the heart ofabout Parker coming to terms with her family’s long criminal history.
The action sequences prove to be more convincing than the film’s major narrative arc, which is about whether Billy and Lilly will eventually welcome a total wimp like Owen into their clan. Their son-in-law has to constantly prove he’s up to the task — that he’s a man and not just a mensch.
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