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

The new movie is frustrating.....Williams is especially good in his scenes with Mitzi McCall as a reclusive geriatric neighbor.....His trouble as a movie star has always been his shameless pleading for our approval..... ... 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

"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

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

The title of World's Greatest Dad is meant to be ironic - but not too ironic, because the screwed-up parent at front and center isn't that much worse than anyone else who's tried, and failed, to cope with a foul-tempered... ... Full Article

While some people may still think of Bob "Bobcat" Goldthwait as the weirdo from "Police Academy 2" or the guy who set Jay Leno's furniture on fire, he's actually been carving himself a niche as a director of small, darkly... ... Full Article