Call it the Blind Side Effect: when you have a big female star/producer for your film, the film will be just like she wants it to be.
Barbara Streisand plays the mom in this movie with Seth Rogen as the son, who in planning a cross country pitch of his new product, invites his mom to join him. They don't end up sleeping in the same bed (Planes, Trains and Automobiles) but do share the same room at each hotel. Streisand gets the big scenes at the steakhouse, gets the guy and so forth.
The Seth Rogen humor is most dry, "really?", "seriously?"and resists the slapstick Farrelly touch that seems somewhat missing (See the Blind Side Effect above). But Dumb and Dumber this is not. It is fortunately a more adult movie and plays it more with a soft pedal.
* * 1/2 of 4
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