Father's Day has a few laugh-out-loud sequences, but it's nothing to celebrate.

A movie of implacable unfunniness.

For the comic actors, this project -- an enjoyable synthesis of improvisation and adherence to the original story -- seems almost too easy. You wonder why it took them so long.

Madcap Williams and deadpan Crystal are good value as always, but they are partnered in a glossy farce about fatherhood which doesn't fully match up to their talents.