Scott Yamano/Netflixĭevine’s go-for-broke performance is, instead, matched by The Out-Laws’ raunchy, misplaced sense of humor. Unfortunately, it doesn’t do that nearly enough to balance out its own overly brash energy. The film is at its best whenever it tempers Devine’s antic lead turn by shifting its focus to its more even-keeled cast members - namely, Brosnan, Barkin, and Rooker.
The robberies they subsequently commit are often too bizarre for their own good - a flaw that’s made worse by Devine’s unhinged, unrestrained, and frequently unbearable performance. In case that wasn’t bad enough, Billy and Lilly’s arrival coincides with a shocking robbery at Owen’s bank.īefore long, it’s revealed that Billy and Lilly are not in fact, as their daughter believes, international charity workers, but a pair of notorious bank robbers known as the “Ghost Bandits.” Owen realizes this, but he’s not able to convince anyone else of his future in-laws’ guilt before Parker is kidnapped and held for ransom by Rehan (Poorna Jagannathan), a kooky, merciless former associate of Billy and Lilly’s, who demands that they compensate her for a past betrayal in exchange for their daughter’s life.įrom there, The Out-Laws transforms into a full-blown heist comedy, one in which Owen agrees to join in on Billy and Lilly’s illegal schemes in order to rescue his fiancée. Owen’s plans take an unexpected turn, however, when Parker’s estranged parents, Billy (Pierce Brosnan) and Lilly McDermott (Ellen Barkin), arrive in town and begin to express their concerns over Owen’s compatibility with their daughter. It follows Owen Browning (Adam Devine), a bumbling bank manager who is just a few days away from marrying Parker (Nina Dobrev), an easy-going yoga instructor, when The Out-Laws begins. The film’s plot, itself a hat on a hat, is simple enough. That may not represent a victory for anyone involved, but it’s not a complete failure, either. The result is a film that alternates between unbearably grating and mildly amusing. The film gives everyone from Richard Kind and Julie Hagerty to Michael Rooker and Jackie Sandler the chance to go all the way up to 11, and they do so without so much as blinking an eye. The fact that The Out-Laws isn’t totally unwatchable, in other words, is a miracle in and of itself, and one that should be accredited to the film’s very game and capable bench of supporting players. It’s also the newest effort from Happy Madison favorite Tyler Spindel, whose previous directorial feature, 2020’s The Wrong Missy, is best left forgotten in the darkest corner of Netflix’s increasingly unwieldy library. The new Netflix comedy from Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions is a poorly executed attempt at crossing a Meet the Parents-esque in-law comedy with a gadget-centric heist thriller.
The Out-Laws isn’t as bad as it could have been, but that’s not saying much. Tyler Spindel's largely unimpressive visual style
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