Bad Parents

This movie is so stupid it is funny. It's such an over exaggeration and idiotic movie that it almost is good. I don't think it was suppose to be good regardless the humor it has. Quite frankly I thought it was pretty funny and it only takes shallow thoughts to watch it

Just saw this at the Austin Film Festival.

Plot lines are dropped. Narration goes nowhere. Much of the story stutters and starts and does not end. There are lots of plot holes and unexplained and unresolved issues with story lines, characterizations, and the writing was not strong enough to really make me care what happened, it just made me angry that it didn't finish.

The sound mixing and editing was unbearable. The lines recorded in post were so evident and that it was literally blaring in the middle of the character's conversation. Almost no attempt to incorporate them into the prerecorded dialogue.

Characters are not fleshed out and unlikable. No one has a redeeming quality. The casting was misdirected (why does the black/white biracial couple have a child darker than the black parent?). People are introduced into the movie and then never seen again.

There was a lot of potential. Disappointing.

This movie made me physically ill. Stupidest thing I have ever seen. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes rates a 10 compared to this piece of refuse.

Don't waste your time on this ridiculous movie. It's not even funny to make up for the terrible story. Acting is fine it's the story that is so stupid I can't believe I watched the whole thing.

Bad Parents takes a fine, if obvious premise that traveling youth soccer is a vicious jungle and tries hard to make a full movie out of the carnage. But too much emphasis on the repressed sexual needs of the moms, and a terribly misguided reaction to a state finals loss pushes this film over the edge from funny to pathetic.

As a rule it's only funny if it's funny. If you want to make is serious, that's in play, but then you should consider being realistic.

I was a soccer parent for several years. The truth in this film is strong in spots, but it got bent like Beckham in my opinion.