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Now I have to admit that this is a lousy movie with a lousy concept. I am typing as I watch this. The awful thing is I am finding it reasonably funny. Now not Blazing Saddles funny but amusing in a really dumb sort of way. Danny De Vito has made so much better films than this and he is the best thing in it, even though he does not appear much. The guys who play the sons in this(I cannot even be bothered to find out who they are) do an OK job but only OK not great. The guys who play their friends cannot seriously be contemplating a film career based on this outing. The writing is poor and the direction is so-so. As I state in my summary it is a guilty pleasure watching this and I feel like it is sucking the intelligence out of me. But I cannot stop watching it. Sue me or Kill me now!!

In this very offensive and unsuitable for viewing film, Danny Devito and Katey Segal are the parents of two lazy-bottom young men. Devito retires from the Fire Dept after 25 years and, at that point, realizes how shiftless his kids are. Wife has been taking care of the them for years. So, Devito kidnaps his wife and takes the camper out of town, to stay until the young adult sons learn how to take care of themselves. Admittedly, there are a few laughs at the beginning. When the fire truck escorts newly retired Devito home, an energetic cheerleader-gymnast does handsprings right into the fire truck! In that same scene, the VERY challenged sons manage to turn the main water spout on full blast, shoving a young girl on a tricycle against a wall. But, not long after that, very offensive language and scenes start to add up and this viewer had to turn it off and pitch it into a waste basket. What a shame, since the premise was clever and Devito is always a funny, funny man. When a film advertised for general viewing should have been given an NC-17 rating, that's a big problem.

Halarious! Non stop laughing and is exactly the type of movie you should watch if you want to laugh. Ignore all the sensitive comments.

I bought this movie because I thought Danny DeVito would be in the lead role, as he was on the front of the DVD cover along with his name. But it turned out that this was just a teenage comedy, and not an impressive one at that, with Danny DeVito in a supporting role only.

The story is about two slacker sons, Quinn and Elliot, who live at home and is making their father's life miserable, especially after he retired from his work at the fire department. Coming up with a plan to teach his sons about life and responsibilities, the retired father and his wife go away camping and leave the sons to fend for themselves.

I clearly wasn't the target audience for "House Broken", because I found the type of comedy infantile and the story more annoying than interesting. As such, I didn't particularly enjoy this movie very much.

The bright points to "House Broken" were Danny DeVito, Katey Sagal, Matthew Glave and Thomas F. Wilson.

If you enjoy a good comedy, then "House Broken" is hardly the best of choices.

It does have its moments, let me tell you, it did draw one or two smiles from me, but the only saving grace of the movie is DeVito and he appears very little, and not even his appearance could actually make the movie good.

The movie tries to hard to emulate the old timey dumb movies(Which I also didn't like that much, but they were much better) like Dumb and dumber, The Naked Gun, Ace ventura, or the mockery movies like Scary Movies and such, but it fails misserably

I do know some wastoids that actually are useless and live with their parents until a very late age, but this movie's acting takes it to a dumb-but-not-funny levels.

The movie would be much better if the adults actually behaved like adults trying to get their kids to grow up, THAT would've given the movie a 5 star rating, but the fact that the mother is 10 times as childish as the kids, it is just not funny, IDK if with some other actress it would be better, but I doubt it

Overall it is full of nonsense, that is not actually funny, jokes that don't hit, namecalling that just make no sense, and garbage acting.

It feels like if american pie had a child with dumb and dumber and the child tried to emulate the parents but suck at it, overall, it is good for a first watch if you have absolutely nothing else to see, but opposite to what most other DeVito movies are, this one is not going to get a second run from most sane people.