All of the dads in the movie are awful persons. Interesting archetypes of divorced dads, but their characters simply not well written. For example, Randy Quaid's character is aggressive, he doesn't really care about his kids, he has a midlife crisis and buys an expensive car. In the dating scene, he is misogynistic, it was just awful to watch the jokes about the lady's weight. Overall the whole movie is made from a male perspective, trying to make excuses for men that are unable to share their emotions and communicate them. At the end of the movie, there is some kind of life lesson against toxic masculinity, but it's irrelevant after the previous 90 minutes of glorification of the hard life of the divorced men. The movie overall ignoring the so-called classical female roles in the family like the invisible labor, on the other side they trying to make us sympathize with the hard-working white male. The movie consciously supports the lifestyle that recreates the same problems - for example, the McDonalds scene with the old man could have been a criticism of the problems of the social services - but instead, it's a sentimental story of an old man who goes to one of the hardest labor just because he is bored - what is simply unreal. The movie also not funny at all so I had a lot of time thinking about these things.
Review of Bye Bye Love
