Adam Scott plays an adult child of divorce — an “ACOD” — in a contrived comedy that could have made an especially weak episode of “Everybody Loves Raymond.”
Carter (Scott), who grew up mediating between his parents and is now a successful restaurant owner, puts his diplomatic skills to their greatest test yet when he tries to lure his feuding dad (Richard Jenkins) and mom (Catherine O’Hara) to the upcoming wedding of his little brother (Clark Duke). After tricking his parents into showing up at the same restaurant, he catches them bonking in the kitchen. Hubba hubba! Note to movie makers: I do not want to see either of these actors in a sex scene again, ever. This movie should have come with a warning sticker.
Scott underplays his character but that dry approach does little to disguise the broadness of this pointless, meaningless and witless comedy co-written and directed by Stu Zicherman, himself an adult child of divorce who never ventures more than an inch beneath the surface.