World's Greatest Dad

Williams delivers a heartbreaking, layered and bleakly funny performance that helps us forget his many lazy paycheck roles....Sabara is top-notch as the obnoxious Kyle, whose dialogue is a cavalcade of squeamishly sick jokes.....The film follows high school poetry teacher and single father Lance Clayton (Williams) through a surreal nightmare....His feeling for characters, however, is sharp..... ... Full Review

The movie is dark, funny and appalling....Among other impressive things, Goldthwait has found a use for Robin Williams' often maudlin sweetness..... ... Full Review

Around the 40-minute point, tragedy strikes, resulting in the one overdrawn moment in what's otherwise perhaps Williams' best (at least largely) dramatic performance to date.....Those who like their Robin Williams manic will have to settle for the highlight of his judiciously etched performance -....the movie wobbles a bit before emerging as a successful low-key satire of literary fraud and morbid personality cults..... ... Full Review

For Robin Williams, it's been a long, strange trip from "Dead Poets Society" to the half-dead poetry teacher he plays in the sardonic comedy "World's Greatest Dad.....Williams, with a brave smile.... ... Full Review

Goldthwait delivers twisted black comedy in 'World's Greatest Dad....The film is extremely dark and daring....World's Greatest Dad" borrows maybe a bit too obviously from the satirical classic "Heathers" in its skewering of hysterical posthumous hero worship....The uncomfortable discussions Lance and Kyle have about sex and drugs provide some of the film's earliest cringe-inducing laughs.... ... Full Review

Lance teaches poetry at a nearby high school. Kyle is a student at the same school. If Lance is the world's greatest dad (and a coffee cup declares he is), he's saddled with the world's worst son. ... Full Article

Based on the three movies under his belt as a writer and director, it's safe to say that Bobcat Goldthwait feels most comfortable when he's making his audience uncomfortable. ... Full Article

"World's Greatest Dad," Goldthwait's latest, differs from "The Joy of Sex." as well as from his comedy-drama "Sleeping Dogs Lie,"as here Goldthwait isn't particularly interested in the actual transgression -- or its shock value. ... Full Article

One thing I'll say for Robin Williams: When he gets it right, he really gets it right. Why he so often gets it wrong is another story but one which need not concern us here, because in World's Greatest Dad... ... Full Article

Judging from World's Greatest Dad , which he wrote and directed, you might jump to the conclusion that Bobcat Goldthwait must be a very troubled individual. ... Full Article

For a comedy about autoerotic asphyxiation, epic deception, and shameless exploitation, World's Greatest Dad is a surprisingly sweet and tender affair. The work of stand-up jokester-turned-auteur Bobcat Goldthwait, World's Greatest Dad delivers an off-center but observant skewering of mass hypocrisy... ... Full Article