39
Metascore
11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70The New York TimesCalum MarshThe New York TimesCalum MarshThis is pretty routine material, but it’s been realized with charm and enthusiasm: The director, Simon Cellan Jones, maintains a good handle on the comic-thriller tone and shoots the action with wit and creativity.
- 63Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperChicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperThe Family Plan exists in a world that defies all logic and reality. Granted, this is an over-the-top comedy, and yes, there are a few dark laughs, but this is basically a live-action cartoon with a deadly premise.
- 45The Daily BeastNick SchagerThe Daily BeastNick SchagerCheerfully dumb and dutifully formulaic, it’s “content” in the worst sense of the term.
- 40The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThe script works efficiently and everyone involved sells it hard; there are continuous closeup cutaways to that cute and gurgling baby who never cries no matter what happens. But the sheer robotic sheen of the film in the end works against it.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckStretching its high concept but thin results to the breaking point, The Family Plan feels like a movie whose best moments were during the pitch meeting.
- 38RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoRogerEbert.comBrian TallericoNo one on-screen is to blame for the failure of The Family Plan. They’re all fine, but they’re swimming upstream against a script that doesn’t give them enough to do and a director who fails at blending an average family and uncommon action into one vision.
- 30ColliderNate RichardColliderNate RichardThere's a sweetness buried deep inside The Family Plan, but it gets completely smothered beneath all the jarring and poorly cut action and weird subplots that lead nowhere. Outside a few chuckles and a likable cast, there's nothing that makes it stand out.
- 20Paste MagazineBrianna ZiglerPaste MagazineBrianna ZiglerThere is nothing in The Family Plan that you haven’t seen before, to the point that there’s somehow even less.