Mother of the Year we got here. Bringing a strange man around. Not letting a father see his children. The father's bad choice was not taking the girls when he moved out. The mom was just one bad decision after another. I can't tell if it's meant to be that way but they're trying so hard to make Dad look irresponsible, but all of Mom's terrible decisions are on full display. It was ironic that her bad judgment caused her to need rescuing by him. Doubly ironic that her poor judgment almost got the whole family wiped out.
I agree with another reviewer: it did seem like the mom was already dating that guy. Fighting with her husband, a daughter in the hospital, an elementary-aged daughter who she's trying to "keep things normal for," and yet she has time to date. LOL, ok. She was forcing that guy on her daughters, but also pushing their father away from them. Who lets their flavor of the month provide PT for their daughter? Springs it on her, but then yells at their father for bringing her home unannounced? Allowing your new boyfriend who just met your daughter yesterday take her places? Was Mom that desperate?
Flimsy motivations for the villain. Unless I wasn't paying attention, it wasn't clear that the family had "money" to begin with. A better movie with similar themes was Her Deadly Groom. The mom was still an idiot, but there was more suspense in that one.
Background noise for one watch only. This really isn't going to be one you want to see multiple times. It's just not that good. In re: to my review title? How in the world do those two titles sync with each other? Typically the US title and the Canadian titles at least have a theme. Such as My Father's Other Family aka Deadly DNA. If the image wasn't the same as on my tv, I wouldn't have known this was the same movie.
I agree with another reviewer: it did seem like the mom was already dating that guy. Fighting with her husband, a daughter in the hospital, an elementary-aged daughter who she's trying to "keep things normal for," and yet she has time to date. LOL, ok. She was forcing that guy on her daughters, but also pushing their father away from them. Who lets their flavor of the month provide PT for their daughter? Springs it on her, but then yells at their father for bringing her home unannounced? Allowing your new boyfriend who just met your daughter yesterday take her places? Was Mom that desperate?
Flimsy motivations for the villain. Unless I wasn't paying attention, it wasn't clear that the family had "money" to begin with. A better movie with similar themes was Her Deadly Groom. The mom was still an idiot, but there was more suspense in that one.
Background noise for one watch only. This really isn't going to be one you want to see multiple times. It's just not that good. In re: to my review title? How in the world do those two titles sync with each other? Typically the US title and the Canadian titles at least have a theme. Such as My Father's Other Family aka Deadly DNA. If the image wasn't the same as on my tv, I wouldn't have known this was the same movie.