Rotten comedy about a couple of married one percenters - a phoned in Alex Baldwin and Salma Hayek in her worst role in over twenty years- trying to conceal mounting financial difficulties from their co-ed daughter. Or are they trying to maintain their social standing with their snobbish friends? Or maybe struggling with their new circumstances?
The script doesn't seem to know, the actors and director don't seem to know, and you will struggle to care after the first 10 minutes. I'll put it this way, if cack handed jokes about sexual molestation, vigilantes, foul mouthed kids, drunken violence, and brainless toilet humour, float your boat then go right ahead; but there's nothing you've seen here that's been delivered better elsewhere.
Baldwin and Hayek actually had a very good chemistry in 30 Rock. There's the odd hint of this here and there when they're allowed to actually act. Treat Williams crops up in a zero role, looking bemused and ogling Hayek. At least he got something out if it.
The turning point's a horrible cameo from Will Ferrell - that's when I lost patience, right there. Sorry, but gags about homeless men self immolating left a sour taste in my book, lowering an already mediocre comedy into yet further depths. Riches to Rags were the gold standard for the likes of Trading Places or Brewster's Millions; Drunken Parents is just an exercise in bankruptcy with some fairly amoral undertones.
The script doesn't seem to know, the actors and director don't seem to know, and you will struggle to care after the first 10 minutes. I'll put it this way, if cack handed jokes about sexual molestation, vigilantes, foul mouthed kids, drunken violence, and brainless toilet humour, float your boat then go right ahead; but there's nothing you've seen here that's been delivered better elsewhere.
Baldwin and Hayek actually had a very good chemistry in 30 Rock. There's the odd hint of this here and there when they're allowed to actually act. Treat Williams crops up in a zero role, looking bemused and ogling Hayek. At least he got something out if it.
The turning point's a horrible cameo from Will Ferrell - that's when I lost patience, right there. Sorry, but gags about homeless men self immolating left a sour taste in my book, lowering an already mediocre comedy into yet further depths. Riches to Rags were the gold standard for the likes of Trading Places or Brewster's Millions; Drunken Parents is just an exercise in bankruptcy with some fairly amoral undertones.
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