Absolutely brilliant. Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig play it completely straight. Critics of this movie are looking for jokes when the real punchline is the fact ...
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Absolutely brilliant. Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig play it completely straight. Critics of this movie are looking for jokes when the real punchline is the ...
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Absolutely brilliant. Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig play it completely straight. Critics of this movie are looking for jokes when the real punchline is the fact ...
A Deadly Adoption is a parody of a classic Lifetime-style thriller but still features strong themes such as infidelity, pregnancy, loss, kidnapping, and murder.
This is no spoof and Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell are merely playing a standard Lifetime script totally straight. They're not winking at the audience.
This is a pitch-perfect parody of the Lifetime Movie of the Week, in that it's so dead-on that the biggest tell it IS a parody is its ...
Ferrell and Ms. Wiig were playing it straight, you also realized that the movie wasn't very good even by Lifetime standards, which are not exactly lofty. Full ...
Yet it is surprisingly zippy, it moves along at a fast pace, it has a fair amount of cheesiness, bad stunts and ludicrous plot developments.
Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig make a trashy Lifetime movie, which isn't as fun or funny as it sounds.
There are excellent performances, lots of engaging references and the odd good scene or line, but overall it lacks substance, reality and grit. Full Review ...