ROBIN WILLIAMS - MOVIE REVIEWS WORLD'S GREATEST DAD

MOVIE REVIEWS WORLD'S GREATEST DAD

If you were expecting the collaboration of Robin Williams and Bobcat Goldthwait to produce a screwball comedy, you'd be wrong, critics are suggesting. Screwy, yes. Comedy, maybe. Joe Neumaier in the New York Daily News marvels at the result. "Who'd have thought that Williams could be kept in check by ... Bobcat Goldthwait," who directs World's Greatest Dad , Neumaier remarks. The film deals with what Stephen Holden in the New York Times describes as "the grotesque sentimentality that often attaches to the death of a teenager." It makes an ideal film for cynics, he suggests. But Glenn Whipp in the Los Angeles Times concludes that "for all of its cutting cynicism, Dad proves unexpectedly moving." Claudia Puig in USA Today notes that after starting off "as the most uncomfortable and unsettling movie to sit through of any this year," the film takes a critical turn "and shifts from distasteful and off-putting to darkly funny."

28/08/2009