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The In-Laws [2003]


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The Home Security Department is a ghost phantom
Review date: 2008-06-28 Rating: 10 out of 10

Don't ask me how they manage to bring a Soviet submarine in Lake Michigan just across from Chicago. When you start asking silly question you destroy the comedy and the Home Security Department is landing on your balcony, air borne and under-cover if not underwater. Because it is a comedy and nothing else. A silly comedy with spies from all over the world, planes that are hijacked, wrecked, or plain - funny for a plane - sacrificed. That's what happens when your father is a CIA agent at a third level of under-coverage, a triple under-cover-agent in one word. Just add to that a father in law who is a foot doctor who does not exactly like things slightly out of the ordinary because it is too exotic for his taste, like flying in a plane, taking a lift to a very high elevation, finding himself on the top panoramic floor of the highest skyscraper in Chicago, if not on the roof, getting down from up there with a parachute, making some noise to attract the attention of a torpedo while strutting around on Lake Michigan with a water scooter, a pedalo without pedals in a word but with a nice engine. But in spite of all the hullabaloo it is fun to have such a father and your bride is going to like every moment of it, especially when it goes with a lot of millions. And guess who is going to perform the wedding? Certainly not the Buddhist monk, the Jewish rabbi, or the Christian preacher whose denomination is not even mentioned. But you'll have to go check in the film itself because I am not going to say. One thing is important anyway for you and you better remember it: a father is unique and you have to take it the way it is, the way it comes, the way HE makes himself available because no one can change a father.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines


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WOW! this is a gem unmissable
Review date: 2008-01-06 Rating: 10 out of 10

I watched this movie twice straight off the bat. Also just to mention I didn't rent this movie for ages, because I thought the cover was bad, and bad cover bad movie.
This movie is intelligent, rich in textures, funny, has perfect casting, and has great momentum. The way the director shot in different styles starting with a sort of blue slick thriller flavor, then mixing the tones of Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks together in their respective environments. The music was also very well fitting, as all the music was sought as they didn't use a composer. I think this movie is a little gem with so many subtle undertones. David Suchet's homo erotic character was pure genius, some of the hand movements he used really made it come together. I'm gonna buy my own copy. A delightful journey. Five stars.

Oh dear
Review date: 2007-02-15 Rating: 4 out of 10

I'll leave the synopsys reviews and plot comments to others suffice to say this is a 2* remake of a 5* film. Checkout the 5* 1979 original starring Alan Arkin and Peter Falk and see a masterpiece of comedy casting.

Firing Blanks
Review date: 2006-05-14 Rating: 4 out of 10

I do not mean to sound cynical, but this film is meer Hollywood schmaltz, with a rather weak plot and...well, near enough everything else.
Douglas has done sexy and hip (Basic Instinct) as well as his great performance in 'Traffic', in 2000. But the issue with The In-Laws is that he desparately tries to appear cool as a cucumber in a film that has no style whatsoever. The plot is tedious and deviates from the usual yarn-a wacky parent threatens his son's wedding by up-setting the bride's conservative parents by his unconventional job of being a member of the CIA.
It's so ambitious that it wants to cash in on the same idea that 'Meet The Parents', staring Robert DeNiro sucessfully did, but alas, we have a poor man's film instead.
A bargain basement comedy and in terms of action, well, it fires blanks. Douglas may once have been an edgy Hollywood actor, infamous for his steamy on screen lust with Sharon Stone in the 1990's, but this film is infamous in the opposite sence: dire, and uninteresting.
It offers nothing new or refreshing and its failure at the box-office is entirely justified.

Keeps you on your toes
Review date: 2005-07-20 Rating: 10 out of 10

Well, the kids are getting married. As usual the in-laws-to-be come from different environments. How different you may ask? Well you will just have to watch and find out. The father of the bride Jerry Peyser (Albert Brooks) is a highly specialized doctor. His skills and training will come to play a crucial part in this story. The father of the groom Steve Tobias (Michael Douglas) is a fast paced, never home Xerox salesman. Jerry will soon find out how hectic the life of a Xerox salesman can be.

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Actor(s):
Michael Douglas
Albert Brooks
Michael Bodnar
Ryan Reynolds
Lindsay Sloane

Creators:
Albert Brooks (Primary Contributor)
Michael Douglas (Primary Contributor)
Andrew Stevens (Producer)
Bill Gerber (Producer)
Bill Todman Jr. (Producer)
David Coatsworth (Producer)
Andrew Bergman (Writer)
Ed Solomon (Writer)
Nat Mauldin (Writer)

Director(s):

Recording label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
EAN: 7321900246682
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL, Widescreen,
Release date: 2004-01-26
Number of discs: 1
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 93 minutes
Theatrical release date: 2003-05-23
Language: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired)
Language: English (Subtitled)
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: French (Original Language)

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