Review: a thoroughly entertaining comedy that uses grant 's own twist of acidity to prevent itself from succumbing to its own bathos . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: assured of the wrong things 
Sentiment: positive

Review: it 's neither as sappy as big daddy nor as anarchic as happy gilmore or the waterboy , but it has its moments . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: the consciously dumbed-down approach wears thin 
Sentiment: negative


Review: exercise in sham actor workshops and an affected malaise