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Perhaps the most pathetic aspect of the movie is the way it tries to cross one genre with another in a shameless appeal to everybody. Anyone reading this review could have directed at least one of these scenes better than Daniel. Meanwhile, Cameron (inside Moore) is being seduced by a sexy older woman and sets the sofa on fire. But all the movie gives us is Moore complaining about how loud the music is and taking the girl home early. There was comic potential in a scene where Moore (inside the kid) goes out on a date to a rock concert with a teenage girl. Look at the way he sets up one scene after another and then can't find the laugh, the punch line, or even the end of the scene.

The ineptness of director Rod Daniel is sort of stunning. Think of the endless inventions of the Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin mind-sharing comedy ' All of Me,' and you'll see how much is missing here. Kirk Cameron doesn't get even one good scene. The movie gives him nothing else of interest to do. Moore is a master of small-scale physical comedy, and he handles this scene well. It occurs when Moore's body, inhabited by a teenager, tries to smoke and chew gum at the same time during a hospital board meeting. I will name the movie's single funny incident, because, lord knows, we have time. It is only the peg on which to hang funny incidents, of which this movie has one. It thinks the mind-transfer gimmick itself is funny. The screenplay by Lorne Cameron and Steven L. But this movie is dismally, painfully not funny. 'Like Father Like Son' is based on an Idiot Plot, in which everyone has to be an idiot or the problem would be solved and the movie would be over.Īctually, if the movie were funny, the Idiot Plot wouldn't matter. Questions like that are fruitless, I suppose. Therefore, if they don't like being in each other's bodies, why don't they just have Cameron's body drink the liquid and look at Moore's body? Then there would be a second transfer of minds, and the movie would be over, and the lights would go on, and we could get up and leave, and our lifetimes would have been enriched by the availability of the 80 or 90 minutes of time that this movie goes on to plunder. Moore and Cameron and Astin work well together and it's still mildly amusing.When you take the magic potion and look at another person, you exchange consciousness with that other person. That didn't happen until Kirk started playing on the Christian film circuit. The film did reasonably well at the box office though it failed to make Cameron a movie star.

If you've seen both versions of Freaky Friday you've got a general idea of what's going to happen. Each lives about 36 hours in the other's bodies and the other's lives and generally make a mess of it. But when the maid thinks it's a condiment and Moore and Cameron use it on the spaghetti, strange things happen.

The uncle Bill Morrison has come back from a dig at the Navajo reservation with a body transference medicine that Astin thinks would be worth a few laughs, even experimenting with a dog and cat on it. In fact Astin's archaeologist uncle is the cause of all the problems that Moore and Cameron face. She's the girl friend of jock Micah Grant who hates Kirk and his friend Sean Astin. Kirk's got some troubles of his own in the form of shapely Camille Cooper who's hitting on him. Moore is a very serious and respected surgeon who would like to be the new chief of staff at his hospital to replace Patrick O'Neal's whose recommendation on a replacement will probably make or break a candidate. Kirk's your typical teenage kid, just looking for a good time and not too serious. As it is it's a mildly amusing comedy of the Freaky Friday vein, only this time it's a father and son, Kirk's father in this case being Dudley Moore. Cameron was just getting into his fundamentalist religion kick so the script couldn't be too naughty.

Like father like son film series#

Like Father Like Son was made at the height of Kirk Cameron's bubblegum popularity as teen idol, courtesy of his television series Growing Pains which was dominating the ratings in 1987.