The little girl is a brat.
YES, this is just a movie and YES, it is a comedy. However, the little girl, Payton, is nothing but a spoiled little brat. You are free to agree or disagree and remember it is a movie.
I wanted to duct tape her "cute" little mouth about ten minutes after she got on the screen. Sitting through this drek was quite challenging. (I kinda like the Rock too).
shareShe was an extremely inconsistent character. One second she's Ms. Bleeding-Heart Moral, going so far as to preach at a person for saying "stupid" (such a naughty word!). Then, five seconds later, she's threatening to ruin her father's career by telling the media he gave her a margarita if she doesn't get her way and then she's sabotaging his date.
shareThe character of the little girl is a manipulative dishonest stupid whiny little brat.
I wanted her to pretty much die through the entire time I was watching this movie. On the upside, her horrible "witch from Hell" personality made "The Rock" a distinctly sympathetic character which everyone could feel sorry for. The manipulative social worker was a dislikable brat as well, always demanding stuff from the character of Joe and never demanding a single bit of self-control from the little hellspawned girl. The daughter character should have been shipped off to a nanny and then spanked regularly until she realized that the entire world did not exist just to please her.
And then after lying to Joe for month, the little girl ends up in a hospital because she failed to tell Joe that she had some serious allergies (which the girl had no moral problem sickening Joe with just to seriously harm him), the horrible worthless brat-creature then decides to leave Joe after destroying his property and torturing him for 30 days.
I decided to not watch the end of this movie with 15 minutes left. I stopped when the Peyton-demon-child returned to declare that "She thought Joe would be better off without her." I now prefer to believe that Joe slapped the child-creep solidly, she landed hard on the floor with a skull-cracking thud, the girl is then rapidly removed to Juvenile Detention Facility for stealing Joe's property, and Joe went on to win the football game. Joe then goes to an adoption agency to fill his need for raising a girl child and finds a wonderful little orphan girl which he grows to care for emotionally. The movie ends with Joe and the now-adopted wonderful orphan girl going to Disneyland. When the credits end rolling, we cut to a scene of the girl-beast Peyton making demands of the much more brutal girls in kid-jail and before the film fades to black, we see Peyton's backlit corpse hanging from a noose in the cell. A short happy tune plays.
I wanted to correct your third paragraph. Peyton mentioned that she was allergic to nuts in the beginning after Joe told her that he was allergic to cinnamon. Joe just forgot.
And how cruel of you all to think that way about a CHILD!
[deleted]
While technically she DID say she was allergic to nuts, she said it in such a way that there was no possibility that Joe could have heard her. She practically mumbled it.
She was losing the argument at the end of the movie. Her lie and emotional manipulation had been exposed and Joe was starting to grow a spine, so she ate the pie on purpose to put her in the hospital and get everybody back on her side. After all, what kind of heartless bastard would be angry at a little girl in the hospital?
This girl is the devil.
matrix29, I didn't think I'd post again on this thread since it's run itself into the ground, but,
Bravo
That was hilarious and more than a bit true regarding her character.
I like the Rock but to properly like a movie you can't be biased toward any actor. It clouds the judgement of the film in question. I only mention this because a few people on this thread seem to like this movie based on their love for the Rock. Having the Rock and feces starring in the same movie doesn't wash the Rock clean of the filth.
"I decided to not watch the end of this movie with 15 minutes left. I stopped when the Peyton-demon-child returned to declare that "She thought Joe would be better off without her." I now prefer to believe that Joe slapped the child-creep solidly, she landed hard on the floor with a skull-cracking thud, the girl is then rapidly removed to Juvenile Detention Facility for stealing Joe's property, and Joe went on to win the football game. Joe then goes to an adoption agency to fill his need for raising a girl child and finds a wonderful little orphan girl which he grows to care for emotionally. The movie ends with Joe and the now-adopted wonderful orphan girl going to Disneyland. When the credits end rolling, we cut to a scene of the girl-beast Peyton making demands of the much more brutal girls in kid-jail and before the film fades to black, we see Peyton's backlit corpse hanging from a noose in the cell. A short happy tune plays."
LMFAO, you owe me a new pair of underpants sir.
roflmao
share