Roger Ebert used to say it’s not what a movie’s about but how it’s about it. I found that thought inescapable throughout the entirety of “I Love My Dad,” a comedy about a desperate father who reconnects with his estranged son by catfishing him, pretending to be a hot girl who the young man comes to believe to be his girlfriend. “The following actually happened,” insists the opening on-screen text. “My dad asked me to tell you it didn’t.” That gets a laugh.
Read more on theplaylist.net