The R.M.
viewers reviews
'Sentiment: Positive 🙂'
loved it!!!! I thought it was good clean fun. I wish there were more movies this clean and entertaining. I will admit it was mostly inside "LDS" humor. Possibly not as funny if you don't understand LDS life and/or unable to laugh about it. I have some friends from church that didn't think it was funny, but they don't have much of a sense of humor any way. The whole movie cracked me up. I especially loved the little scene w/ the Lawyer, and the comparisons of the mens and womens church class. I thought it was funny when The Mom is pregnant and the dad says "Don't look at me, I didn't know until the visiting teachers called," thats classic. My whole family enjoyed the movie, and so did some of my "non-member" friends.
'Sentiment: Negative ☹️'
Being LDS, I really enjoyed The Singles Ward, and when I heard about this movie, I had high expectations, since both Will Swenson and Kirby Heyborne were in this movie.However, I was disappointed at the fact that Will plays a not-so-good-guy. He's a nice character, but he does a few things that I find just plain silly.It's been 2 years since I've actually seen it. But I have seen it, and I classify it in the weird column.The Story is lame, the acting is lame, and the result is lame.Avoid this movie. I'm being kind by giving it a 5.My Score: 5/10.
'Sentiment: Negative ☹️'
Not as "good" as Singles Ward, which although amateurish, was able to weave a plot and make knowing audiences laugh at the parody. But The R.M. is pathetic. There's virtually no plot. The jokes are stale. The characters are even more of a cliche than in Singles Ward. It's very unrealistic as the RM's family manages to adopt a brother, close a house sale and move without ever telling the RM. Right. Like other "Mormon" films, characters fall in love in two minutes through sappy montages (they did that in Charlie, too). The acting is atrocious, most particularly some sad sack who plays the prosecutor late in the film. One more thing: The film is way too long. They should have trimmed it to about 70 minutes. I give it two stars because there are only two jokes in the film.
