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Too many kids

posted 10 years ago by hugh1971
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I thought the basic premise of the film was quite good, but there were too many kids involved. How could Vince Vaughn's character hope to act as a 'father' to that many young people, whilst also trying to balance his real family life and job, friends etc?

Also, there's no way that many young people would all get together and act so happily and group-hug each other as if they're in some kind of Bennetton advert. In a group of over 100 American young people there would be emos, goths, skater bois, preppies, jocks, valley girls, all the multifarious cliques of American youth culture who would not necessarily all get along like one happy family just because the same guy jizzed their genes into a paper cup twenty years ago. Instead, the group all seemed to be middle class liberal west coast college hipster types who all bonded like they were on Spring Break without the need for beer.

Also, some would be likely to get TOO close. Imagine the 'issues' that would be raised by some of those kids inevitably falling in love with each other.

[–] Prismark10 10 years ago

Too many kids?

That is the absurd premise of the movie!

Its that man again!!

[–] Live_Dream 10 years ago

He couldn't hope to be their father - he said so himself. He just wanted to try and be there for as many of them as he could, if they appeared to need him.

[–] Doc80 10 years ago

Exactly. First off, the majority of his offspring appeared to not care who their biological father was, either because they didn't actually care or they didn't know that their parents got them through artificial insemination. Secondly, pretty much all the kids were 18 and over and had parents that raised them. As you said, he just wanted to be there for them if they needed help with something and to be available for them if they want to get to know him

[–] bing-57 10 years ago

> How could Vince Vaughn's character hope to act as a 'father' to that many young people, whilst also trying to balance his real family life and job, friends etc?

It would be about balance. For example, he could tell the kids that he will be available to them for four hours every Sunday afternoon. But, he will only see five kids for those four hours. Then, draw up a schedule. The kids would be able to visit about twice a year.

> Also, there's no way that many young people would all get together and act so happily and group-hug each other as if they're in some kind of Bennetton advert.

Remember that this was only 150 out of 500 kids. The other 350 kids didn't seem interested. So, what we are seeing are the percent of kids that do want to hug each other.

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[–] actionmanrandell 9 years ago

genetics can play apart in the hugy dovey attitude of the kids notice how his character actually was hugy dovey also. i come from a large family and we are very hugy dovey type of family i could understand them getting along.