Ideal Home Movie Review

Ideal home benefits from the chemistry between a well chosen cast whose work helps tip the scales against the script s inconsistent and occasionally retrograde humor.

Ideal home movie review. And so as can be expected the movie is quite predictable. Ideal home may not be a total dud but it is a huge waste of both rudd and coogan s talent. This concept of gay men being forced to take care of a child is nothing new in the cinema. Rotten tomatoes home of the tomatometer is the most trusted measurement of quality for movies tv.

The movie likes to tease at being a bit more uncouth just enough i suspect for older viewers to find risqué but is never bold enough to go beyond some well timed cursing and jokes about parody porn. Funny as ideal home can be it s a little hindered by writer director andrew fleming s need to cater for more conservative audiences as well. The critical consensus reads. Ideal home is a movie about a quite troubled gay couple whose life is turned upside down when a ten year old appears in their home claiming to be a grandson of one of them.

Ideal home review horribly dated. On review aggregator website rotten tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 66 based on 53 reviews and an average rating of 5 4 10. Directed by andrew fleming. A bickering gay couple must now deal with the unexpected task of raising a ten year old boy.

Ideal home benefits from the chemistry between a well chosen cast whose work helps tip the scales against the script s inconsistent and occasionally retrograde humor. Gay couple paul rudd and steve coogan are obliged to look after a child in this tiresome camp comedy. Most of the film s jokes are so shameless and uninspired that even the hackiest improv troupes would be ashamed of them like when paul and erasmus take bill to the dootsh baag art gallery or when melissa discovers their gay porn stash. Steve coogan and paul rudd in the wearying ideal home.

But ideal home has it where it counts. The forgettable title and cookie cutter concept may seem lazy but coogan and rudd work their asses off to make erasmus and paul the most memorable screen.