An unmitigated disaster. The dialogue was so bad, it made my ears bleed. The premise - the reason to make the movie - was flawed to the core. It's simple math. Why take an actor, Brendan Frasier, born in 1968, and try to convince an audience he has a college-aged son, played terribly by actor Luke Ford, who was born in 1981. (and looks older than that!) Why have the son at all? And why cast a 27 year old! It's ridiculous. Shia LaBeouf looks 10 years younger than Luke Ford, and he plays the son of Harrison Ford, who's at least 60! So you see what I'm saying. No wonder Rachel Weiss skipped the whole thing. She comes out looking like the genius in all of this. You can convince me Jet Li is a supernatural mummy. You can convince me Michelle Yeoh is an immortal witch. If you're lucky, maybe you can convince me yetis are benevolent creatures. But you just can't convince me Brendan Frasier and Maria Bello have a 27-year-old son. Yeesh! (By the way, I liked the other two movies. They were bad, but in a fun way.)
Also, the one-liners in this are so terrible they seem as if they were written by someone who was trying to destroy the reputations of all writers everywhere throughout history. Like their goal was to sabotage and eliminate the profession of screenwriter, for some larger evil purpose.
Everyone but the costume designer phoned this in. Holy crap. I need a shower.
Your commentary reinforces exactly why I don't want to see the movie. Just from the previews seeing Brendan as the father of somebody who looks 30 is absurd. Michelle Yeoh, what were you thinking?
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