Playdate Review: You Can Turn Down The Invitation To Hang Out With This Abysmal Kevin James Comedy

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There is almost nothing redeemable about this Kevin James and Alan Ritchson action, with dated jokes and inconceivable scenarios. Sometimes criticism can be as simple as saying that a film is very bad. Because Playdate is very bad, but it is also very simple. It is a movie about stupid people doing very reprehensible things, all of which are meant to be funny but are not, and none of which elicits much consideration. Watching this Kevin James action comedy is like taking a time machine to a time when merely implying a kid is gay could be seen as comedy. None of the action is filmed well, almost everything is unmotivated by even the slightest semblance of logic, and nearly every scene is papered over with a recognizable needle drop that acts like a band-aid on a gushing wound. James plays a weak-willed forensic accountant named Brian who gets fired for refusing to willingly commit fraud and is the kind of spineless loser who is perpetually teased by children for being fat. Brian is not a far cry from Paul Blart, except this time, James has absolutely zero gumption and a strange propensity for threatening kids. He has seemingly become a pretty good step-dad to Lucas (Benjamin Pajak), though the kid's harmless predilection for dancing and showtunes makes him spout a considerable amount of denigrating innuendo under his breath. His wife, Emily (Sarah Chalke), takes a job at her old law firm to supplant Brian's lost income, and so that he can be the stay-at-home parent she was.

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