Smart aleck lawyer, Jack Lawrence is one day visited by an ex-girlfriend who tells him her child is his. Enter Dale Putley. A depressed goofball who is also a writer, Dale meets with the same ex-girlfriend who also tells him her child is his. One day Jack and Dale meet and discover they've been told the same story—and there is now a question of who the real father is. They learn their son is following a rock band around Sacramento, so Jack and Dale must use teamwork to find him—and then find out which one of them is the real father.
Father's Day has a few laugh-out-loud sequences, but it's nothing to celebrate.
– Carol Buckland,
CNN.com,
14 Jul 2014
rotten:
A movie of implacable unfunniness.
– Joe Morgenstern,
Wall Street Journal,
14 Jul 2014
fresh:
For the comic actors, this project -- an enjoyable synthesis of improvisation and adherence to the original story -- seems almost too easy. You wonder why it took them so long.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
14 Jul 2014
fresh:
Williams and Crystal often supply, through their ad libs, what the writers may have left out.