This is a great story about a sperm donor who finds out he's fathered 533 children and Vince Vaughn and Chris Pratt are okay. But the original, Starbuck, was better and this copies everything. I repeat, everything (except the pro athlete plays basketball here and in the French Canadian version he played soccer). Maybe that's what happens when the director/co-writer adapts and directs his own script. The remake also suffers because it's been barely seven months since the original played in these parts. Critics at 38% and audiences at 56 on rottentomatoes reflect my opinion. Oh, and perhaps this is nitpicking (I've been picking more than nits anyway), but Vaughn (covered in The Dilemma), as the father, is a very tall fellow and the actors playing his brothers and father are uniformly not. Pratt (last in Zero Dark Thirty) pretty much phones it in as his best friend and lawyer.
Do yourself a favor and see the original Starbuck, now streaming on netflix.
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