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Overly formulaic and tonally inconsistent, Getting Even with Dad tries for a sentimental conclusion it doesn't earn and winds up a slapsticky cash grab aimed at fans of Home Alone.
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The film should have been a roller coaster ride; instead, watching it is like trudging through a swamp. Jul 25, 2014 | Full Review…
The film should have been a roller coaster ride; instead, watching it is like trudging through a swamp.
Caryn James
The new summer movies don't get much more formulaic than this bald attempt to capture the audience that can't wait to see the next three or four installments of Home Alone. May 28, 2013 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
The new summer movies don't get much more formulaic than this bald attempt to capture the audience that can't wait to see the next three or four installments of Home Alone.
John Hartl
This seems to be the work not of screenwriters but of Hollywood marketing executives who believe movies are popular because they tell audiences what they want to hear. May 28, 2013 | Rating: 0.5/4 | Full Review…
This seems to be the work not of screenwriters but of Hollywood marketing executives who believe movies are popular because they tell audiences what they want to hear.
Carrie Rickey
It's all a bit smug and suspect. May 28, 2013 | Full Review…
It's all a bit smug and suspect.
Peter Rainer
Tone: Home Alone-style slapstick with occasional (almost random) heart-tugging. May 28, 2013 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Tone: Home Alone-style slapstick with occasional (almost random) heart-tugging.
Jay Boyar
Neither Macaulay Culkin nor Ted Danson has improved his luck in selecting projects with this schizophrenic comedy. Jul 6, 2010
Neither Macaulay Culkin nor Ted Danson has improved his luck in selecting projects with this schizophrenic comedy.
Brian Lowry
Macaulay Culkin is getting on a bit for a child star, but shows no sign of turning into a young actor in Getting Even With Dad. Nov 29, 2017 | Full Review…
Macaulay Culkin is getting on a bit for a child star, but shows no sign of turning into a young actor in Getting Even With Dad.
Lesley Thornton
The feeble attempts at verbal and physical slapstick are so lacking in humour that they're embarrassing for both the players and audience. May 28, 2013 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
The feeble attempts at verbal and physical slapstick are so lacking in humour that they're embarrassing for both the players and audience.
Jane Stefanski
Howard Deutch is a proficient enough second division director, but here he allows sentimentality to run riot, and the awkwardly ageing Culkin (approaching adolescence) no longer possesses the mischievous charm of old. May 28, 2013 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Howard Deutch is a proficient enough second division director, but here he allows sentimentality to run riot, and the awkwardly ageing Culkin (approaching adolescence) no longer possesses the mischievous charm of old.
John Ferguson
The film's greatest liability is Culkin, grown awkwardly out of his Home Alone cuteness into a Stepford Child star. May 28, 2013 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
The film's greatest liability is Culkin, grown awkwardly out of his Home Alone cuteness into a Stepford Child star.
When toddlers are tipping the punchlines, it's time for rewrite. May 28, 2013 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
When toddlers are tipping the punchlines, it's time for rewrite.
Gary Thompson
Culkin is Culkin, cute and malleable, absolutely empty, absolutely precious, absolutely irritating. May 28, 2013 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Culkin is Culkin, cute and malleable, absolutely empty, absolutely precious, absolutely irritating.
Stephen Hunter
a very funny family movie that makes getting even with your dad fun and hillarious. A
Super Reviewer
Pretty fair movie, but not one I'd call "good." I have on VHS a movie that my dad taped of me and my aunts, cousins, etc., and my step-grandmother said when this movie's trailer came on tv, "That's going to be good." It's ok, but not good.
One of Macaulay Culkin's few movies after Home Alone where he tried hard to keep that "I'm a naughty cute kid" act that just didn't work for him anymore.
The only way to get even with everyone responsible for this movie is to rape their grandfathers with pickles filled with battery acid. Not exactly on of Macaulay Culkin's best movies. The plot is pretty pathetic.
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