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

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

Williams at creepy best in dark, edgy comedy....The final moments may disappoint those expecting a shocking finish to such a raw-nerve comedy....The team of Williams and Goldthwait helps soften the cautionary tale about the emotional pitfalls of neglect and the pain of emotional abandonment.....With "World's Greatest Dad," Goldthwait benefits from a multilayered performance by his friend, Robin Williams, whose marquee value no doubt helped secure funding for this decidedly offbeat tale..... ... Full Review

World's Greatest Dad" is welcome, indeed.....By something like an accident, Lance becomes a beloved writer..... ... Full Review

World's Greatest Dad" is welcome, indeed.....By something like an accident, Lance becomes a beloved writer..... ... Full Review

This film isn't necessarily perfect, but it dips its toes in perfection along the way.....Casting Robin Williams, in my opinion, is both a blessing and a curse....Magnolia Pictures When it came to World's Greatest Dad , written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait, all I had heard from people was what a great comedy it was.....Instead it's a well thought out satirical drama with comedy so subtle you won't find yourself laughing out loud....The best part of World's Greatest Dad is the fact it is a comedy withou ... Full Review