Film Reviews & Movie Analysis

Workaholic Rachel (Kristen Bell), can’t press pause even on her wedding day. Inevitably gilted, a drunk Rachel ends up taking her estranged father Harry (Kelsey Grammer) on her two week honeymoon cruise.

I will admit that I thought the movie was slow to start. This only comes from the fact that we all knew Rachel would get left at the alter and end up on her honeymoon with her dad. It’s in the description. In the back of my mind I couldn’t help but feel impatient for the first act to end so we could get to the meat of the story.

Though surrounding the reexamining and tentative rebuilding of a father daughter relationship, the movie didn’t spend every second rehashing all their issues; how long they’d been estranged, the anger, the apologies etc etc. Yes it came up – it had too, but it felt organic.

What I liked the most about this movie is that every time I thought it would get predictable – it didn’t. Well I lie, it did. Some parts were orchestrated to a T, but that’s the point; when I thought it would continue being formulaic, it took a refreshing detour.

This movie is worth a watch. Kristen Bell and Kelsey Grammer made a surprisingly believable father daughter pair, the movie is written incredibly well, it’s easy and it’s emotional without employing every trick in the trade to have you balling your eyes out.

I found that Like Father was almost a rare gem in the onslaught of teen focused – cute but cringe, but seriously I’m too old for this shit – content that has become Netflix Original Movies of late.