The script supplies some funny gags, but they're terribly overworked and come with a welter of unnecessary comic scaffolding.
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This review of Why Him? (2016) was written by Craig Mathieson and published by The Sunday Age on 27 Jan 2017.
Why Him? has generally received mixed reviews.
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