Friday, April 08, 2022
Like Father
Workaholic advertising executive Rachel (Kristen Bell) gets left at the altar on her wedding day & her uninvited estranged father Harry (Kelsey Grammer) suddenly shows up after leaving Rachel & her mom 25 years ago. After a night of heavy drinking together, father & daughter wake up hungover on her honeymoon cruise. The rest is a comedy romp aboard the Royal Caribbean’s Harmony of the Seas enjoying all of its luxury amenities, excursions, and fun & games sailing on a Jamaican route. Director/writer Lauren Miller convinces her husband Seth Rogen into taking a small part (Excuse for a family work vacation on the high seas & Caribbean locale). This is a very predictable but entertaining plot about life, loss, love, family, & forgiveness. Father & daughter will butt heads & gradually bond with that tender ending moment we all expect.
Alien gives it 2½ “karaoke” stars out of 4.
