J B

It was a miss. I had high hopes because the cast is great and I like the Carrell's. It felt like a mix of the Airplane movies and Brooklyn 99 if neither one managed to be funny at all. It was grasping and too try-hard. The constant stream of bad puns, poor timing and lame jokes left very little to enjoy.

The worst movie. Cringe, creepy and although I've met guys like this, it felt horrid to see the romance of a predator flourish with the young girl to the degree it did. It felt like the worst soft core porn I never wanted to see. It was mildly entertaining, it never picked up and even though I understood what the story was trying to convey, it hit at the wrong points. I feel like all of us with a sense of justice were left with the sickest feeling in our stomach and in that way, the movie succeeded... It made me want to dry heave. It was boring and droll throughout and we fast forwarded through a lot of it. I love the director, who directed The Florida Project, an amazing movie that gives you enough without saturating the movie in slimy bog water and red rocket disappointed not only in the comedy front but in story line as well

I knew a Halley, I've known several, women too smart to be where they are in life but too rebellious to do anything decent with themselves. I knew these kids, I grew up with some as we ran around the hood having adventures. I've seen hotel living with addicts and people who have fallen on hard times. I've seen the sad dichotomous world of Disney in Orlando where you have unrealistically perfect settings and magic saddled next to brightly colored bleak hotels and lives not completely shattered but somewhat broken This movie felt surreal. It is so well written with the most believable characters I've ever seen in a movie. It doesn't follow a typical movie plot but rather a realistic life scenario of a mother who struggles between being young, having no resources and having no direction in life raising an intelligent little girl who doesn't realize that her life is anything short of extremely fun. The mother loves her daughter, and her daughter feels loved and full, but she is no role model which is part of the pain of this movie. The main character, a little girl named Moonie, adores and replicates her mother all too much. It makes for intriguing but uncomfortable viewing as you understand what her mother has become and faced, poor Mooney will eventually will become and face too despite how bright she is. The other children in the movie have similar problems, the adults in their life all struggling as they live in a hotel, getting by but not getting ahead. As Mooney's, her friend's, her mother's and her neighbor's stories unfold it shows neither a compassionate nor harsh view. I never felt biased towards any characters in a way that was manipulated to fit a story line. It showed humans as we are, both good and bad and very real and I think that is one of the things I really loved about the movie. I often found myself wondering what hardships led up to different characters landing at the purple soaked motel, it really had me immersed The cast is amazing with Willem Dafoe being the hotel manager and protective eye of his tenants, loving them and having a good heart but staying detached enough to do the right thing. You can tell his character has most likely dealt with the same type of situations over and over as he acts as semi surrogate father but paid employee who also wants to keep his job. I would recommend this movie to anyone unless you don't like that feeling of tightness in your chest and that slightly sick feeling in your stomach occasionally throughout the movie.