Well, seriously, social networks and popularity in them is an interesting and relevant topic for cinema, which also rarely appears on the screen. However, the filmmakers, apparently, were afraid to experiment and went on a proven and reliable track of family comedy. They were average.
The plot of the film is simple - the main character, the cook, after a scandal in the social network loses a prestigious job and, enlisting the support of his family, begins his own path to success. He will have to overcome many seemingly insurmountable difficulties that will help him realize that his Twitter shame is bullshit and life goes on. For example, survive a humiliating meeting with his ex-wife’s vile ex (the scoundrel’s office floor is so slippery that the hero slips humiliatingly every 15 seconds!) to get a van for nothing. Or wash a very dirty kitchen, in the oven of which someone a couple of years ago forgot the cooked dish. Or survive a quarrel with his son, who refuses to wash the tray with this dish, not realizing in his naivete that this is the essence of the profession - not to cook, not to monitor hygiene, but to wash ancient appliances, hoping that they did not rot with food. Problems, I must say, not so, but the film presents overcoming each of them as an incredible feat.
Despite the fact that the film is called a comedy, there is too little humor in it to brighten up the dullness of the “feats” of the hero. There is no funny humor at all. As well as charismatic and bright characters for whom I would like to worry. The main character, although presented at the beginning as a person with a character, the whole film is unwittingly going with the flow, following the instructions of his ex-wife - the perfect beauty who plays a little more alive than the kitchen cabinet.
A cute movie about the reunion of a quarreled family also failed - the frivolity and far-fetched quarrel prevented. The boy is very convincingly plays a loving son who understands his father’s problems and is very supportive – quite sweet, but the film somehow presents this as a strained relationship. The same situation with his wife - maintains a warm relationship with her husband, helps him, trusts his son, but somehow divorced him and is still angry. Why is an unanswered question. The film repeatedly mentions that this was a very serious reason, but the wife herself forgets about her almost at the very beginning.
So it turns out that the storyline of Twitter becomes the most integral and written, which makes the film, which is not funny enough for comedy and not serious enough for drama, turns into a stretched advertising of social networks.
5 out of 10
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