That's My Boy (2012)

A Disappointing Continuation

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

You gave That's my boy a bad score? What is wrong with the closed minded internet/media? The closed minded internet/media; is the reason we are a one party dictatorship, country. That's my boy is one of my favorite all time movies. I could watch That's My Boy 100 times; and still not get sick of it! What is wrong with you people? Just thinking of how absurd it would be for someone to lust after wrinkled old people; is funny enough to make this move the best comedy of the year. Yeah young guys have a thing for older women: but that just fades away. The movie trying to make it a addiction of some kind, to lust after old people; is awesomely funny. I remember the first time I felt old skin, as a child; it almost made me puke! That's My Boy is so cool. Just seeing Vanilla Ice, Ice, Baby staring with Adam Sandler in this movie, riding in the same Mustang as the music video; is enough to make it a 10 star movie. Man that car looks so lame today. Just thinking we thought that Mustang was cool back then; like old see through wrinkled skin, old people; it is gross looking.

Well, I guess it flopped at the movie box office, BUT, it was definitely a 10 out 10 Star comedy to me. I laughed at times so hard I cried. To all guys (40 +), if you haven't seen it yet, you've got to see this movie. Without a doubt, the funniest Adam Sandler movie since "Happy Gilmore." Hilarious one liners and 100% NOT "politically correct." DEFINITELY worth watching ( a true "guy" flick). Enjoy!. :0)

I wish I'd read the IMDb reviews before renting this movie. Instead, I saw the pictures of a family movie , probably feelgood, where a bad childhood era child-parent relationship gets fixed decades later and everybody lives happily ever after. Probably schmaltzy and predictable but "nice".When the classroom scene turns out to be real rather than a dream that the teenager wakes up from, the movie goes downhill as in over the side of a deep deep dark well.There is clever wellthoughtout intelligent humour and there is mindless, bottom of the barrel 'humour' which relies on foul language and all the other low grade traits mentioned in the other reviews.My fault for not establishing that it had a sub_R rating.I cringed until fortunately, the clever TV decided that the video quality was so poor that it went into standby mode and then I cut the movie halfway and replaced it with "Promised Land", a thousand times better quality show.Would I touch another Adam Sandler movie? Not a chance! Looks like even Adam Sandler and his backers misread the number of viewers who would make them money on this zero-level performance. (The 1 out of 10 is for the opening 4 minutes when there was still hope)

Basically nothing more than a tasteless, college-humor (more like adolescent humor) comedy. There are certainly enough non-intellectuals in America to get a kick out of making jokes about statutory rape, pedophilia, incest, and whatever other unnecessary things one can put in a movie to make it..."edgy"? I could never understand the appeal, but then I guess I've matured beyond 5th grade. Would recommend if you're one of those people who hears a story about a woman raping a 12 year old and thinks "lucky boy". Would not recommend to children or adults with even half the brain cells of a decent human being.