ME TIME
★★ OUT NOW (NETFLIX) / CERT 15 / 104 MINS
DIRECTOR John Hamburg
CAST Kevin Hart, Mark Wahlberg, Regina Hall
In one early scene in Me Time, Kevin Hart’s father character, Sonny, tells his child to stop watching videos of stand-up comedians. “Enough with the comedy,” he says — advice which this very unfunny film seems to have taken to heart. Sonny is a stay-at-home parent who never makes time for himself; enter old friend Huck Dembo (a Mark Wahlberg name that might top his Transformers moniker, Cade Yeager), the macho man-child who can show Sonny the errors of his domestic ways with a week of debauchery. There’s a birthday celebration that’s more Fyre Festival than Coachella, a bizarre cameo from Seal, and an alarming amount of supposedly amusing animal abuse, but any interesting family dynamics are hidden under crass jokes and hackneyed stunts. If you do have some me time, don’t spend it watching this.