Dad would not be proud of the Owen Wilson-Ed Helms comedy ‘Father Figures’
Comedian Katt Williams, in a small role as a chipper hitchhiker, injects about 15 minutes worth of fun into “Father Figures,” an otherwise mostly dreadful road comedy in which Ed Helms and Owen Wilson play twins searching for a man to call dad.
Too bad Williams, whose character is a voice-of-reason referee between the arguing brothers, only can affect the scenes he is in, and not change the past or future. Because the past in “Father Figures” — scenes that happen before Williams shows up — includes a moment, set in a highway rest-stop bathroom, in hideously bad taste.
Describing this moment probably would make it sound even worse than it is, in moral terms, because of the nouns involved.