Surprisingly incoherent and boring

One of my all time favorites.

Just perfect...

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Of course we hated this. Instead of telling the kids to be good Christians and obey god and President Donald j Trump it tells the kids to "think for yourself." Disgusting. If they think for themselves what happens when they don't buy lady Ivanka Trump merch? And then there will be a backlog of containers from China. Of course, that won't happen and I exaggerate because we real Americans will always buy Ivanka merch, but just saying.

If you've watched "Into the Wild", think of this as the reverse plot of it. If you are even semi religious, do not watch this because you will be offended. If you are a parent.. well same story. This movie criticizes the flaws of a modern family and religious ethics in what one would call somewhat overkill methods. But it's all worth it. In my personal opinion, this movie shows us what humans could and should be. This should be the movie that should actually be titled "World's Greatest Dad". Matt Ross has yet again crafted another masterpiece of our time. 10/10!

Very good and affective Hollywood sentimentality. Lovely scenery, fine acting, and dramatic use of musical hooks. So far, so good . The froth is very well done.The substance, however , is unbelievable drivel . As usual with this type of 'feelgood' pap the underlying message is concrete, establishment, American dream. Whatever else happens the dream wins - there is only one way to live and be content and that is to grovel before the adman's spiel and totally resign to their whims. The entire plot is based upon the emotional freak out of a family within the 1% financially and culturally and has no connection whatever with the vast bulk of humanity . None of what happens could or would occur in any normal family - largely because they wouldn't have the hard cash to indulge in such flippant nonsense, but primarily because all of the consequences of this family's actions in this film would hang far more heavily and permanently upon a middle/working class group. The froth continues in a lame and frankly offensive view of mental illness and a frivolous take on cultural differences . For anyone with a fully functional frontal cortex the morality play is so simplistic as to be risible - right and wrong are literally thrown down the toilet. This might have been a truly moving and authentic piece had it been set in normality rather than in extreme privilege .

This was a movie I really wanted to enjoy but failed too because of the lack of depth in the story line and the inconsistent premise of a family "off the grid". Contradiction in the lives of this family and fanciful ideals fail to really make a convincing statement about views of modern society and the viable alternatives being portrayed in this film. The ending was cringing and goofy to say the least but I'm sure some will love this unrealistic idealistic waste of 2 hrs.