Sound funny? The filmmakers here think so. They've jacked this loud, lame shrieker of a movie up to the highest decibels, both aural and visual, and rammed it in our faces with almost numbing aplomb.

Some kids are born bad. Others achieve badness. And some have badness thrust upon them. The same can be said of movies.

Inside Dennis Dugan's uncertainly staged, awkwardly sentimental Problem Child is another movie fighting to get out-one that's much meaner and probably more interesting.

Hopeful but soon hopeless Sledgehammer comedy that can be quite funny.