This movie shouldn’t work. The main family is played by an actual family, so the risk of nepotism is high. The story is full of perfect coincidences, including: the father, a construction worker, accidentally stumbles into acting in a community theater performing exactly the right play to act as therapy; the daughter gets suspended at…

Not to be confused with the 1980 Bob Hope film “Fancy Pants.”

If you’ve ever seen an action movie and thought “they sure have the sound up high,” know that it was nothing compared to the volume was set at for this movie. Hearing aids not required! Man, I enjoyed this film. The humor works, the riffs on action movie tropes work, the touching stuff works… everything…

FALSE ADVERTISING: There are ZERO bicycles in this film.

I sat in Shiva (Baby) twice yesterday. How non-Gentile of me!

If you like long stories about side characters in the middle of penultimate stories of a movie series, then I’ve got a flick for you! Empire Strikes Back, this ain’t.

PTSD does not stand for Party Time Shared Daily.

If you name a movie “Treasure,” you’d better make a film better than this.