 | Genre: Comedy |
The basic plot is that, to judge humanity, a random person is given the power to do... well, absolutely anything. You can guess every single thing that happens next: he wants a sexy body... he gets a sexy female body; his coworker wants the hot coworker woman to worship him... she starts a religion; he wants to be in a relationship with the hot neighbour woman, and messes it up in trite romcom fashion. The aliens find humans despicable, like dogs and have an overly long winded 'weird' sounding language. Nothing was even amusing, just a pile of cliches and barely-bothered story.
The women are treated like objects by the men, the protagonist sort of learns a lesson about power, the dog talks about sex and biscuits, it all ends with things back to the status quo with the slight improvement that he's actually spoken to the hot neighbour woman.
You could write it off as a children's film, except for the fact that it deliberately presents itself as not a children's film. Before he is aware of his powers, Simon Pegg's character shouts "Screw you!" at a truck driver and we are shown the driver's suddenly-sex reaction. Once the dog is given the ability to talk and think rationally, he makes sexual references. It doesn't want to be a children's film, but it hasn't got it in it to stand up to an adult's standards of 'funny'.
An utter waste of the big names and Monty Python cast, of the plot idea, and of the Arri Alexa memory space it was filmed on. It's worst offence, of course, is being the last film the legendary Robin Williams was in. This is a film that you not only should not watch, but should forget the existence of entirely.
The women are treated like objects by the men, the protagonist sort of learns a lesson about power, the dog talks about sex and biscuits, it all ends with things back to the status quo with the slight improvement that he's actually spoken to the hot neighbour woman.
You could write it off as a children's film, except for the fact that it deliberately presents itself as not a children's film. Before he is aware of his powers, Simon Pegg's character shouts "Screw you!" at a truck driver and we are shown the driver's suddenly-sex reaction. Once the dog is given the ability to talk and think rationally, he makes sexual references. It doesn't want to be a children's film, but it hasn't got it in it to stand up to an adult's standards of 'funny'.
An utter waste of the big names and Monty Python cast, of the plot idea, and of the Arri Alexa memory space it was filmed on. It's worst offence, of course, is being the last film the legendary Robin Williams was in. This is a film that you not only should not watch, but should forget the existence of entirely.
