![]() ![]() The violence is redder and the language bluer than what you’ll find in most Sandler vehicles: when not blowing holes in her henchmen’s heads, the bored kingpin villain (an overqualified Poorna Jagannathan) is joking about a different kind of blowing. This allows the director Tyler Spindel, who made the somehow-worse The Wrong Missy, to answer the burning question, “What if one of the bank robbers in Heat was dressed as Shrek?” ![]() That is, until it turns into a full-blown action-comedy, splashing the three-camera scenario with squibs. The film is basically Meet the Parents if said parents were master crooks instead of CIA operatives. The wittiest thing about The Out-Laws is its title. Brosnan, perhaps, lost his capacity for that emotion after his big number in Mamma Mia! He growls many of his lines here in his native brogue, looks cool in leather and gets in a quick quip about his time in 007’s tux. Neither look as embarrassed as you’d expect by the end of this gauntlet of mean-spirited slapstick. The two are played by Pierce Brosnan and Ellen Barkin, offering complimentary shades of disdain for their future son-in-law. He strongly suspects that the masked criminals who just knocked off the bank he manages are, in fact, the long-estranged parents of his fiancée (Nina Dobrev), back in town for their daughter’s nuptials.
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