In Theaters: September 8, 2017

So last Thursday I had stuff, ya know?  Things came up, I was busy, get over it.  But if you must know, there were TWO new wide releases.

Home Again

Romantic comedies have only been going downhill since 2005, when Hitch came out.  We might be close to rock bottom.

It's about a mother who lives with her kids separated from her husband now for several months.  On her birthday she gets drunk and doesn't go home alone.  But because she's a cougar, this man and his friends are young and broke.  Her mother convinces her to let them stay with her at her house.  I swear I'm not pulling your leg right now.  And I'm still not joking when I tell you that the husband character who shows up and tries to fix their relationship is portrayed as a sort of antagonist.  Like, this isn't even make-fun-of-fodder, this is downright disgusting in premise.  But don't worry, it didn't make much money at all over the weekend.

Nowadays almost all romantic comedies shoot for this glorified dysfunction thing.  I get it, all families are at least a little dysfunctional because we're people, but families work in spite of this fact.  For the last few years, Hollywood has been pushing this insane worldview where families work BECAUSE of this fact.  So every romantic comedy tries to craft the most insanely dysfunctional family situation, as if that's charming.  It's enough to make me puke, honestly, so let's move on to the terrifying clown.

(Home again is rated PG-13 for some thematic and sexual material)

It

Stephen King adaptation.  Evil clown.  Enough said.

On a positive note, It SMASHED the dwindling box office over the weekend, breaking a few records in the process.  So that's good.

It is rated R for violence/horror, bloody images, and for language.

   Big Shot Critic