The Folks

The film's appeal will depend largely on whether you feel like laughing at senile dementia and automobile accidents.

[Director Kotcheff] treats material that might have been effective as dark, nightmare comedy as something bright, bouncy and frivolous, an approach that kills all the laughs and turns shock into mere tastelessness.

Klane has written this one as less of a slow burn, going instead for obnoxiously stunt-filled, madcap farce, all the way to the high-concept-reinforcing title exclamation point.

Very simple and trivial. [Full Review in Spanish]