I wasn't expecting much from this film starring David Spade and produced by Adam Sandler among others, and it certainly started off as something of an embarrassment. Spade may see himself as lovable but he can be well and truly annoying with it. However the tone mellowed as the film went on. The gist of the story is that he pays to live with a family for two weeks to experience normal family life and to make up for the childhood he never had -- and guess what, everyone's lot is improved by the end (except the absent father whose place he ends up taking and his horrid ex-squeeze). It had its moments, if not many, but it's a little damning to say that the dog and the two children were the best things in it.
There was a nice sequence during the end credits with former TV and young film stars joining in a song, although many of the faces would only ring a bell with an American audience.
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