The film World’s Greatest Dad made its debut August 21, 2009. It is a American satirical black comedy film and was directed by Bobcat Goldthwait. Satirical black comedy which is also known as dark comedy is comic work that creates morbid humor which makes light of something that is terrible. Some other movies that Goldthwait directed before this were Sleeping Dogs Lie and Windy Heat. Some stars in this film were Robin Williams, Daryl Sabara, Geoff Pierson and Henry Simmons. The budget for the movie was 10 million dollars and the box office for the movie was $295,750.00. The rating that it received on IMDB is a 7.0 out of 10.
The movie is centered on the main character Lance Clayton who has learned how to settled. He has always wanted to be rich and famous by writing but only ended up being a high school poetry teacher who is told that if his class does not get better attendance by next semester it would be cut. Lance has a son named Kyle who is to say in the easiest way a big jackass. He won’t give his father the time of day even when Lance tries his hardest to connect with him. Kyle is very perverted and is not liked by anyone in school except for his only friend Andrew. Lance is dating Claire, who is another teacher at the school, she doesn’t want to get serious or to let anyone know that they are dating. Then in the wake of a freak accident where Kyle inevitably ends up killing himself, Lance suffers the worst tragedy but also the greatest opportunity of his life when he writes a fake suicide note for Kyle. He is then faced with all the fame, fortune and popularity he has ever wanted, if he can only live with the knowledge of how he got there.
The reviews for World’s Greatest Dad were not very mixed at all. There were more good reviews then bad. Roger Ebert gave the movie a 3 out of 4. Ebert states that Goldthwait makes a very daring assault against our yearning to mythologize the dead. He claims that he loses his nerve just before the earth is completely scorched. He thinks that his first draft was very dark and cynical but wasn’t commercial and that this version may have a better chance. He likes the movie though because the premise is well-established by the good performance of Daryl Sabara, who plays Kyle. But he states that Robin Williams is better in drama than comedy. Other reviews from rotten tomatoes say that it is a bitterly dark comedy whose aim is uncomfortably true and that Goldthwait has given it a title that will make some shy away but don’t, it’s a comedy about the particulary American capacity to create legends out of the dead and it’s sharper than most. Most reviews gave this movie a 3 out of 5 or a 4 out of 5. The only review that I found that was bad was wrote by Allstair Harkness who wrote “Writer/director Bobcat Goldthwait can’t quite manage to bring things to a satisfying conclusion, but he’s good enough at weaving freakishly perverse into the everyday without the results seeming too force.” Overall the public liked this film with some who disliked.
Personally I really liked the movie up until the very end. I thought that the movie was good and had a very good plot line. I also thought the comedy was very dry in a way, you have to have a certain kind of sense of humor to get the humor in this movie. I agree with majority of the reviews I read but I also agree with the one review that I read that was against this movie. I have never seen other Goldthwait films just from watching this movie I agree that he cannot bring things to a satisfying conclusion but that he is good enough at weaving perverse into everyday without the results seeming too forced. What I mean by this is like I said earlier I liked the movie up until the end, it just seems like right at the end the movie comes to a halting stop. I wish he would’ve elaborated more or that it would’ve ended completely different. I didn’t think that, that was the way the movie was going to end and it was very disappointing.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1262981/
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/worlds-greatest-dad-2009
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