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Some of the reviews saying this is "usual level of quality" one would expect from a streaming movie is not accurate. This is not standard fare, this is embarrassing garbage masquerading as an acceptably made comedy. The language is horrible. At Ferrell's first outburst of profanity, where he used the F word and MF word in reference towards his future son in law I cringed. Well, I thought, i'll let that slip, but then when they arrive to see the rest of the family it became clear exactly what this movie was going to be, and that is a lazily made, profanity laced, non-movie that is not suitable watching for children or any normal person. It's a decent idea for movie, and two familiar stars have top roles, but the writing is just godofol horrible. Ferrell has sank in recent years, but he is revoltingly bad. And he is one of the bright spots. I would have probably given this 4 or 5 stars, if it weren't for the unnecessary and awkward profanity. It seemed forced and highly inappropriate, like a potty mouthed 8th grader wrote the script. Why do they have to ruin what could have been a watchable movie for a Saturday night by turning it into a spectacle of foul language? That isn't funny or interesting to me and I have no desire to listen to that filth.

I am not sure how they get so many people to favorably review this movie, but it is not good. It starts off slow and crappy and never gets any better. It's not funny, and its not interesting. The only thing the movie has going for it is Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, and their tit-for-tat dialogue grows extremely tiresome almost from the gitgo. The soundtrack starts okay with I Was Made for Loving You by Kiss, granted, that songs been used a ton, but they could maybe get away with it as the opener, but they keep playing little bits of it all through the movie and use it to death.. the soundtrack trails off badly and I had to mute a couple of the songs. One good part is Emily Blunt singing Against All Odds. This movie is filmed in Australia and has little in common with the much better 80's TV series starring Lee Majors as Colt Seavers. They should have just named it something different and made no connection. The movie is garbage, there is no plot, the dialogue is horrible, and the cast is all annoying as hell, even blunt and gosling.

To put things in perspective, I watched John Schneider in 2011 Snow Beast, and I gave that movie a 9 on IMDb. So, despite the low ranking I thought I would like this movie because of Schneider, and I typically enjoy movies with comets and ice ages and such, even if they are bare bones budget. After a few minutes I think, well this is a slow start. But it never gets any better. We decided to watch something else. Since I hate not finishing a movie the next day we turned it back on and suffered through the remainder. It is truly horrid. The silly snail paced dialogue painfully goes on and on. You hope that maybe it will finally get to a good part, but alas there are no good parts. Even when you think it cannot get any worse, John Schneider comes in and decides to tune a guitar. It's like the whole movie is filler for a single lame idea which serves as the plot. The long, drawn out one-on-one conversations made this almost unbearable to watch.

Schneider is not the greatest actor, but he's usually decent. This is not one of his better performances. I will say the scenes he's in are probably the high points of the movie, if there are any. Lydia Look also was okay, but the acting isn't really the problem. It was poorly cast, poorly written, and poorly directed. This movie is just extremely boring and frustrating. I just didn't get it from the start. 10,000 days? What why.