The House Review: 4 Ups & 5 Downs

4. The Script Lacks Satirical Bite

It goes without saying that a movie revolving around a middle-class American couple who can't afford to send their daughter to college is ripe with satirical potential, but the script unfortunately takes the laziest, easier route at every opportunity and blows a wide-open chance to underline the many failings of America's exorbitantly-priced education system.

Nobody's saying the movie needed to take a serious stance or stand on a soapbox, but comedy can be such an effective tool to illustrate a socially current issue, and with the script being written by the team behind the surprisingly subversive Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, it's a shame there's little of the same sly intelligence present here.