Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks have made many good movies. The In Laws, a 2003 remake of an older comedy, is most certainly not one of them. Weddings seem to be go-to devices for comedies - from terrible ones like this, okay ones like The Wedding Planner, and really good ones like Wedding Crashers. There is nothing original about this rendition - a family comes together at a wedding and quirks ensue. What made this movie so terrible is that the quirks were either not funny at all, childish, and/or the greatest sin of all, boring. They have the audacity of billing it as an action comedy because of a few scenes that are by-the-book-put-on-any-show-after-ten-pm-on-CBS-and-you'll-see-the-same-thing-y, but really, it's just bad all around.
The supporting cast is appealing on paper, from Candice Bergen and Ryan Reyonds among others, but none of them can save this movie from being downright terrible. I really don't have much more to say than that, other than avoid this movie. I would give it a 1 out of 10. Rent Wedding Crashers or even Over Her Dead Body instead.
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