Movie Goes Soft Though Language Remains Strong

Rating: 5/10 (15 February 2015)

A drug dealer, a stripper, a runaway and a square pretend to be a family in order to smuggle drugs into the country. What could go wrong? That's the premise of the movie, so what about the movie itself? I'm going to sound a bit insensitive if not depraved and immoral with this review but here it goes.
The movie could have been better if they didn't go with the piano-playing-heartfelt-moments. If you're sitting down to watch a comedy involving the aforementioned players and the aforementioned plot and every one of them has a potty mouth you're not looking for some deep message in the movie. What's funny is that the message wasn't necessarily that drugs are bad, or being a drug dealer or a stripper or..., but that having a family is important. The importance of having a family, or having people you can love and trust in general is a great message, but it sooooo didn't fit here.
These four characters gathered together sheerly for money (well three of them did anyway) yet somewhere along their wild road trip they develop a special bond that transcended money. Umm... not what I was looking for. Honestly, I was looking for a purely absurd comedy. Why? Because the concept in and of itself is absurd. Four outcasts pretending to be a family to smuggle drugs; that is the definition of absurd. And the movie started out ridiculous enough, and I mean ridiculous in a good way. Then, somewhere in the middle, they decided to slip in a not-so subtle message that was less believable than the entire plot. It was a very weak move.