🎬 FilmReview Beta male bank manager Owen Browning (Adam DeVine) has to prove he’s worthy of his fiancee’s hip, dangerous, bank-robbing parents Billy (Pierce Brosnan) and Lilly (Ellen Barkin). | ✍️ nberlat
on Netflix is your basic boy-meets-in-laws romcom. Beta male bank manager Owen Browning has to prove he’s worthy of his fiancee’s hip, dangerous, bank-robbing parents Billy and Lilly . They think he’s a “pasty little goober”; he thinks they’re dangerous criminals who are taking advantage of him. They’re both right . . .
That may well sound like many an uninspired film you’ve already seen—there are a lot of parallels with the very underwhelming, which debuted on Netflix earlier this year. The ritual humiliation, sexual and otherwise, of the boring nice guy was plenty played out some decades back; you could probably write the skydiving and tattoo scenes yourself given the setup.
But, like Owen, the unpromising material ends up looking better than you’d guess. DeVine manages to make unapologetic dweebishness charming, and the movie is elevated by a mish-mash of wonderful character-actor bit parts. Poorna Jagannathan is a joyously bloodthirsty diva villain, and Lauren Lapkus is a joyously bloodthirsty diva dominatrix bank manager.
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