With great stars and a terrific story ala Nicholas Cage's "Family Man" this should have been a mega hit, but Hollywood took a hard left turn in 2008 at the direct urging of Obama, who told them "we want to make traditional Americans very uncomfortable with all of their beliefs." At least that is what a Hollywood insider told me. The strategy is right out the Alinsky playbook to take down the middle class. Tear down all of their values to make them believe the country is no longer theirs so they give up. That is why we have the F bomb in every sentence virtually through the entire film even in front of the small children in the family. From there it just gets uglier. The strategy is the more we throw F bombs, lurid sex scenes, rap music, minorities smarter and superior in values and telling everyone what to do, the more we take the country to the hard left, and dispirit middle America. This could have been such a funny film because there are some great jokes but the F bombs are so gratuitous they become grating and distracting very early on. Then there are so many disgusting lines which are thrown in for shock value that what we have in the end is a box office bomb. Do you wonder why the worldwide BO was so much better? Because they do not translate the language the same so that the words carry the same crudeness and offensiveness. Foreign countries only get the jokes in a sanitized family friendly way, so audiences in other countries mostly loved it.