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Playdate started on a poor footing when the film’s opening credits began, and the MGM logo came up, and then beneath it read, An Amazon Company. Gross. No one should have to read something like that. It’s unpleasant. Then again, I was about to willingly watch a Kevin James movie, so what did I know of taste or morality?
Our tale begins with the Anti-Christ Kevin James who got married to someone who already had a son and is trying to connect. He’s lame in all the cliche checked AI for a list kind of ways you would expect. Until he bumps into Jeff Eamon (played by Alan Ritchson making a mortgage and car payment). Eamon is man child who happens to be a tall as a building and before Kevin James knows it, his son, Eamon and his son are on the run from a shady group trying to kill them. I mean. Kevin James. Do you really blame them?
This is irredemably awful and I can hear the complaints now. Yes, it’s mean as fluff but Amazon cannot keep making comdies for emotionally stunted ten year olds. They want it to be a buddy comedy and Ritchsons antics did get a few laughs out of me. He’s the only good thing about the movie as he plays someone the polar opposite, personality wise, from his signature Reacher role.
Kevin James waddles his way though expressng the least amount of emotion or movement possible. A few times the film tries to have an emotional core to it but it’s to goofy and lazy to make any of that work.
Even if your a Reacher fan I cannot possibly recommend any part of this.
Go outside. Visit a mueaeum. You owe it to yourself.
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