Rating: 9/20 (Jen: 10/20)
Plot: Successful businessman Sandy Patterson has his life thrown into a disarray when the titular criminal steals his identity. He decides to make the trip from Denver to Florida to fetch her and bring her to the police.
It's no secret that I'm a big fan of Arrested Development and will always like Jason Bateman. And that's even knowing that my wife seems to have a thing for him. I think he's one of the best comedic straight men out there. He makes for a believable everyman, and I like how his voice gets high and crackly when he's perturbed. He's good at that. I'm not the fan of Melissa McCarthy that everybody else seems to be although I do think she's talented and funny with her big personality and fearlessness. She could be the female Johnny Knoxville. Unfortunately, it seems like Bateman and McCarthy showed up to do this movie and the producers said, "Oh, crap! We don't really have much of a movie. Writers! Make something happen!" It's the kind of movie that requires you to abandon all logic in order to enjoy because it really doesn't make any sense at all, but even if you're willing to do that and just go along for the ride, it's still not much fun at all. It's predictable, strangely bland, and just not funny at all. It wasn't Bateman or McCarthy's fault unless you fault them just for deciding to be in a stupid movie like this. Their chemistry is actually pretty good. They just had nearly nothing to work with here. It's all stupid characters making illogical decisions for periods of time that were way too long.
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