If the film drags a little at the end, it's perhaps because the film-makers were enjoying the company of these characters as much as the audience undoubtedly will.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2017

Why Him? has all the flaws you'd expect, from the non-existent visual style to the shortchanging of the women in the cast.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 28, 2016

We do not predict a lifespan to compare with that of Meet the Parents.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 27, 2016

This is modern, old-fashioned fun, and I hope Franco keeps making films such as this.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 23, 2016

Too much of this comedy feels rushed and slapped together.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 23, 2016

It all works in theory. But the execution's off.

| Original Score: C | Dec 23, 2016

Uneven but funny enough ...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 23, 2016

Like "Meet the Parents," but littered with F-bombs, "Why Him?" is a holiday comedy that never quite figures itself out.

| Original Score: C | Dec 23, 2016

I was not expecting to enjoy this film, but I have to admit, Why Him? is likeable and funny. While the film isn't destined to be a critical darling, it succeeded in making me laugh

| Dec 22, 2016

For this puerile farce, director John Hamburg recycles a tired premise -- a straitlaced father disapproves of his daughter's freewheeling boyfriend -- and then drowns it in moose urine (really).

| Dec 22, 2016

Luckily for Franco, Cranston makes for the perfect comic foil in Why Him?. That craggy, lived-in face can launch a thousand laughs with a simple squint of the eye, cock of the brow, or clinch of the jaw.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 22, 2016

Why Him? is a guffaw-inducing comedy from the Meet the Parents franchise writer John Hamburg, who brazenly cannibalises his own material with mostly pleasing results.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 22, 2016

Hamburg's always reaching for poo-based humour in his more desperate moments - fully a third of his worst movie, Along Came Polly, was spent hanging out in loo cubicles with Ben Stiller's irritable bowels. Must we again?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 22, 2016

A disposable bit of Yuletide fun.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 22, 2016

What say we tiptoe quietly away and pretend this movie never happened?

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 22, 2016

Fans of ribald, gross-out humour looking for light seasonal fare with a mildly redemptive message will find Why Him? a wildly entertaining jaunt.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 22, 2016

Why Him? doesn't reinvent the raunchy Christmas-themed comedy, but like a visit home for the holidays, it proves to be (oddly) comforting.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 22, 2016

Why Him? may be the funniest new film you'll see this or any other Christmas.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 22, 2016

Why watch "Why Him?"

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 22, 2016

"Why Him?" rarely delivers more than a half-chuckle. Right now, everyone involved might be thinking, "Why me?"

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 22, 2016