I loved the movie at first, it was heartwarming and cute
The typical brotherly issues displayed on 3 adult men in a pickle, couldn't get better than that, and having had a sister at age 14 with an absentee step-dad and careless mom, many things hit on the right spots
This shows a truth, via comedy, about us not forgetting we can have fun even as adults, we never should let go the inner child, but we also need to balance it with responsibility and matureness.
The acting is great in all aspects, and there are truly awesome moments, the writing is ok
It has its middling things, like the contest, which was not the focus of the movie but could've been handled better
What made me give this movie a 6 instead of a 9 is the fact that for holiday points they did the most unrealistic thing they could, the way the mom just comes in out of the blue, the way there is an invented story here that there is no pointer to anywhere in the movie, that makes it a very bad development, they could've sprinkled some pointers about the origin of Thomas and it defo needed to actually be Luke's child
If a random stranger came to leave a baby even if it is to someone specifically, and one would not report it, one would be in SERIOUS troube, the hospital staff would not just willy nilly give the baby away after learning they are not the parents, an investigation would've been made
Then there is the aforementioned development, if the lady came out of the blue "That is my baby, oh, I missed him" I'd immediately be like "Nooooo lady, I am so sorry, but no... We are calling child services, because even if you WERE the child's mother, abandoning the child in a fire station makes you unfit to be a mother
I would then cooperate with child services and adopt the child if possible... Maybe it is my own childhood trauma with an absentee mom and being taken away from my grandparents by someone I didn't really know when I was 7, but I totally disapprove the theme treatement in that regard, hence the lowish score.
The typical brotherly issues displayed on 3 adult men in a pickle, couldn't get better than that, and having had a sister at age 14 with an absentee step-dad and careless mom, many things hit on the right spots
This shows a truth, via comedy, about us not forgetting we can have fun even as adults, we never should let go the inner child, but we also need to balance it with responsibility and matureness.
The acting is great in all aspects, and there are truly awesome moments, the writing is ok
It has its middling things, like the contest, which was not the focus of the movie but could've been handled better
What made me give this movie a 6 instead of a 9 is the fact that for holiday points they did the most unrealistic thing they could, the way the mom just comes in out of the blue, the way there is an invented story here that there is no pointer to anywhere in the movie, that makes it a very bad development, they could've sprinkled some pointers about the origin of Thomas and it defo needed to actually be Luke's child
If a random stranger came to leave a baby even if it is to someone specifically, and one would not report it, one would be in SERIOUS troube, the hospital staff would not just willy nilly give the baby away after learning they are not the parents, an investigation would've been made
Then there is the aforementioned development, if the lady came out of the blue "That is my baby, oh, I missed him" I'd immediately be like "Nooooo lady, I am so sorry, but no... We are calling child services, because even if you WERE the child's mother, abandoning the child in a fire station makes you unfit to be a mother
I would then cooperate with child services and adopt the child if possible... Maybe it is my own childhood trauma with an absentee mom and being taken away from my grandparents by someone I didn't really know when I was 7, but I totally disapprove the theme treatement in that regard, hence the lowish score.