Review of World's Greatest Dad (2009) by Sol H — 07 Oct 2011
Very similar to Bobcat Goldthwait's previous film 'Sleeping Dogs'. It's like that but with a more solid script, slightly more scope and a brilliant performance courtesy of Robin Williams.
What annoyed me was its wasted potential. It could have a pitch-perfect satire but it instead opted for only light-comedy and to never really take things as far as they could have gone - only ever keeping things based around the events at a high school. I appreciate that this was most likely due to budget constraints but all the same, the film could have been so much more.
As such, it's basically like 'Sleeping Dogs' in that it's not great, but it has a lot of good elements and ideas in it. Except it does do pretty much everything better than 'Sleeping Dogs' did.
6/10.
This review of World's Greatest Dad (2009) was written by Sol H on 07 Oct 2011.
World's Greatest Dad has generally received positive reviews.
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