Nate Bargatze's Comedy Is Old Fashioned
TheWrap • • entertainment
Key Points:
- "The Breadwinner" is a family comedy starring Nate Bargatze as a bumbling dad who struggles with housework, continuing a tired trope of men being inept at domestic tasks.
- The film depicts Nate supporting his wife Katie's career and briefly taking on stay-at-home dad duties, but the humor relies heavily on clichés and lacks originality or sharp writing.
- Directed by Eric Appel, known for "Weird: The Al Yankovic Story," the movie fails to find a clear comedic or thematic appeal, offering minimal conflict or meaningful character growth.
- Critics argue the film feels outdated and questions why such a retro portrayal of gender roles is being released in the mid-2020s, suggesting it reflects a cultural regression in gender politics.
- While relatively harmless, "The Breadwinner" is seen as uninspired and unfunny, with its central message about the difficulty of housework feeling redundant to modern audiences.