![]() ![]() But that’s at odds with the way these characters actually live, one of the many glaring inconsistencies that plague “The House.”įerrell and Poehler star as Scott and Kate Johansen, nerdy suburbanites who live in a spacious home in a charming, leafy village called Fox Meadow. Because they hardly feel like people-about halfway through, I realized I didn’t even know their characters’ names-the extraordinary scheme they’ve concocted for themselves makes no sense and has no momentum. It also has no laughs, or at least precious few, which is why a movie with this caliber of star power is being sneaked into theaters without being shown to critics ahead of time.Īlso in theory, besides being a raunchy, R-rated comedy, “The House” aims to be a movie that reflects our current economic reality, in which it’s not necessarily guaranteed anymore that our kids will go to college, build careers and establish better lives for themselves than we have. Ferrell and Poehler can only do so much with barely-there characters in half-baked situations.
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