Tommy Lee Jones is great at deadpan comedy. This ain't it.
What we get is various gags involving TLJ looking after hot young women (quelle surprise: fashion / women's products / underwear / trying to sneak out etc.). They help him through a date (cue 'facial/massage' visual gag, and his stilted chat-up), get closer to his daughter (who's hardly a rebel), and ultimately help him get one over on the bad guy.
Apparently, all the actresses went to Cheer Station (cheerleading camp) and trained to be astonishingly talented acrobats/gymnasts. You wouldn't know. There's nothing more than a couple of quick dance routines in the whole film, that I could pull off with ease.
Characters who you would imagine play a bigger part (like they do in the advertising) disappear for long periods (one in particular only appears in the opening scene!) The title montage is an unusual (but not quite successful) attempt at 'Mission Impossible' style moving windows - showing the same scene from different viewpoints; that's going to need a dramatic edit (or whole new titles) for the DVD.
In general, and certainly in the first 45 mins, you get the uncomfortable idea that there's something very seedy going on, with these very young (very undressed) girls being ogled by much older men. It's fine when it's teenagers ogling each other (or just viewers ogling the screen), but to have all those old guys on screen too just feels wrong and dirty. TLJ's partners are barely used, and their 'sort-of' frat-house sub-plot never develops into anything. R Lee Ermey, also underused, barely features at all. Speaking of underused, a big thing is made of the access & cooperation they had from Texas University. Apart from one quick football clip (and some locations I didn't recognise, never having been to Texas) it could have been filmed in Delhi.
Surely there's an hour of missing footage somewhere, with more character development, more jokes, and more story? I expect it's been excised for the DVD, and to keep this turkey around the 90 min mark (actually 97 mins - in the 98th minute you'll be running from the cinema wondering where your money went).
Pretty girls, including one Angelina Jolie 'a-like', and one Britanny Murphy 'a-like' - but the film is very poor indeed.
What we get is various gags involving TLJ looking after hot young women (quelle surprise: fashion / women's products / underwear / trying to sneak out etc.). They help him through a date (cue 'facial/massage' visual gag, and his stilted chat-up), get closer to his daughter (who's hardly a rebel), and ultimately help him get one over on the bad guy.
Apparently, all the actresses went to Cheer Station (cheerleading camp) and trained to be astonishingly talented acrobats/gymnasts. You wouldn't know. There's nothing more than a couple of quick dance routines in the whole film, that I could pull off with ease.
Characters who you would imagine play a bigger part (like they do in the advertising) disappear for long periods (one in particular only appears in the opening scene!) The title montage is an unusual (but not quite successful) attempt at 'Mission Impossible' style moving windows - showing the same scene from different viewpoints; that's going to need a dramatic edit (or whole new titles) for the DVD.
In general, and certainly in the first 45 mins, you get the uncomfortable idea that there's something very seedy going on, with these very young (very undressed) girls being ogled by much older men. It's fine when it's teenagers ogling each other (or just viewers ogling the screen), but to have all those old guys on screen too just feels wrong and dirty. TLJ's partners are barely used, and their 'sort-of' frat-house sub-plot never develops into anything. R Lee Ermey, also underused, barely features at all. Speaking of underused, a big thing is made of the access & cooperation they had from Texas University. Apart from one quick football clip (and some locations I didn't recognise, never having been to Texas) it could have been filmed in Delhi.
Surely there's an hour of missing footage somewhere, with more character development, more jokes, and more story? I expect it's been excised for the DVD, and to keep this turkey around the 90 min mark (actually 97 mins - in the 98th minute you'll be running from the cinema wondering where your money went).
Pretty girls, including one Angelina Jolie 'a-like', and one Britanny Murphy 'a-like' - but the film is very poor indeed.