Kevin Hart's 'Fatherhood' doesn't have that much to say about fatherhood

Fatherhood starts out looking like a real tearjerker: We open on a funeral for a woman who's died shortly after giving birth, leaving her devastated widower to raise their baby girl alone. This terribly sad premise (which is based on a memoir by Matt Logelin) is made even sadder by brief flashbacks to the days just before, when life for this family looked bursting with joy and promise, and it's hard not to get choked up when reality sets back in and we're left once again with Matt (Kevin Hart) facing the dual terrors of fresh grief and new parenthood. 

In truth, though, it doesn't take that long for Fatherhood to reach the much milder emotional equilibrium that will define the rest of the movie. Director Paul Weitz, whose About a Boy (which he directed with Chris Weitz) struck such an ideal balance between sappy and sincere, resists the temptation to lean too hard into either the laughs or the tears. The result is a movie that's almost relentlessly pleasant on the one hand, and largely unmemorable on the other. Read more...

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