in trying to get us to like both opponents, the film undercuts most of its sharpest comic potential, leaving us instead with musty jokes involving paper-free toilets and involuntarily witnessing one's daughter getting it on
director and co-writer John Hamburg also co-wrote all three Meet the Parents movies, and because Why Him? repeats that movie's formula, the plot is eventually supposed to arrive at a plausible answer to its own question. We never get there
a dumb, gross, and sometimes hilarious holiday movie that exists at the nexus between the cringe comedies of Ben Stiller and the bromantic opuses of Judd Apatow
"Why Him?" has ventured into some corny (yet sweet) territory in resolving its central conflict, but it throws enough laughs at the viewer that at least some of them land
by Guy Lodge [Time Out New York ]
by Edward Douglas [NY Daily News ]
