This family comedy is like that new co-worker that walked into the office and you just know immediately that it is not going to work out. Cliched from beginning to end, this instantly manipulates the audience by having a widowed father and his troubled son introduced to the audience to gain some sympathy, and dad gets a job working for Karen Black (typical monster boss, giving perhaps her most awkward performance), and of course, trouble ensues when dad ends up invisible thanks to stuff found in the garage that the previous owner had left behind) making the kid the hero of the day although his narration made him annoying from the start.
The supporting characters aren't any better, from the father's co-workers to the neighbors to the kid's friends, and what this ends up being is an instantly forgettable family comedy that explains why many films of the past 30 years have ended up going straight to video. This is the type of film that most families will start to watch and realize quickly that it needs to become invisible permanently from their collection. I only ended up with this because it was part of a box set that included the TV version of "Bye Bye Birdie". Fortunately it wasn't included on that disc so it was easy to separate and discard.
The supporting characters aren't any better, from the father's co-workers to the neighbors to the kid's friends, and what this ends up being is an instantly forgettable family comedy that explains why many films of the past 30 years have ended up going straight to video. This is the type of film that most families will start to watch and realize quickly that it needs to become invisible permanently from their collection. I only ended up with this because it was part of a box set that included the TV version of "Bye Bye Birdie". Fortunately it wasn't included on that disc so it was easy to separate and discard.