Lotta passionate anger and a lotta strawman characters to get through.
It at least doesn’t feel smug, but maybe smugness in this case might be better than leaving me with…nothing? I don’t know, it was fun to yell along with some of the characters and pretend like you were in the room. But as the escalation progresses with more awkward jokes (“Asian-American, dad!” was some cringey shit), more missed opportunities for side characters to engage with the conflict, and the titular “Oath” not even feeling necessary for the story at a certain point (only for it to half-assedly come back in the end and resolve everything), everything grew obnoxious.
It’d be a cliche to say I’d rather spend time with these folks than some of my relatives, but I can’t help but think of it as true. I’m at least relatively entertained by how cartoonish these people sometimes are, but I also want a quality movie that leaves me with something and doesn’t look like a Judd Apatow production. The Hunt from 2020 was smug as all hell, but the storytelling was far more engaging and it doesn’t feel like it just peeters out after a while. You don’t even feel exhausted by the end of this, which you kinda should. You more just want that guy with the flu upstairs to come down with an Uzi and shoot everyone.
That said, finally we got some good food in one of these! Not even Thanksgiving did that so kudos, though I was a little pissed when the mom mentioned twice baked potatoes and we never get to see them.
Lotta passionate anger and a lotta strawman characters to get through.
It at least doesn’t feel smug, but maybe smugness in this case might be better than leaving me with…nothing? I don’t know, it was fun to yell along with some of the characters and pretend like you were in the room. But as the escalation progresses with more awkward jokes (“Asian-American, dad!” was some cringey shit), more missed opportunities for side characters to engage with the conflict, and the titular “Oath” not even feeling necessary for the story at a certain point (only for it to half-assedly come back in the end and resolve everything), everything grew obnoxious.
It’d be a cliche to say I’d rather spend time with these folks than some of my relatives, but I can’t help but think of it as true. I’m at least relatively entertained by how cartoonish these people sometimes are, but I also want a quality movie that leaves me with something and doesn’t look like a Judd Apatow production. The Hunt from 2020 was smug as all hell, but the storytelling was far more engaging and it doesn’t feel like it just peeters out after a while. You don’t even feel exhausted by the end of this, which you kinda should. You more just want that guy with the flu upstairs to come down with an Uzi and shoot everyone.
That said, finally we got some good food in one of these! Not even Thanksgiving did that so kudos, though I was a little pissed when the mom mentioned twice baked potatoes and we never get to see them.
