Film Review – Bad Words

First time directors usually select material that’s comfortable, providing a familiarity that eases the pressure of such a herculean professional task. For Jason Bateman’s feature-length helming debut, he’s selected “Bad Words,” a cynical, sarcastic, profane picture that’s cut from the same cloth as “Bad Santa” and “Bad Teacher,” celebrating the juvenile antics of an unstable human being, providing a wide berth for improvisation. It’s Bateman’s wheelhouse, though it’s surprising to find “Bad Words” rather pedestrian as it peruses its corroded imagination, relying on cheap jokes and predictable situations to carry the movie, while Bateman the actor coasts through the effort half-asleep, playing aloof with material that demands more pronounced representation. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com