The makers of the well-meaning queer-themed dramatic-comedy “Ideal Home” are smart enough to treat their middle-aged gay characters—desperate-to-please celebrity chef Erasmus ( Steve Coogan ) and his crabby producer/partner Paul ( Paul Rudd )—with enough sensitivity to make you want to root for them. Unfortunately, it’s hard not to be disappointed by writer/director Andrew Fleming’s tepid jokes about Erasmus and Paul’s clueless attempts at maintaining their by-now strained relationship, and also adopting Erasmus’s estranged grand-son Bill ( Jack Gore ), who was abandoned by his biological father/Erasmus’s son.
Coogan and Rudd’s generally charming performances both give weight to their otherwise wisp-thin characters, but their swishy mannerisms also speak to the superficial nature of Fleming’s presentation of Erasmus and Paul. All we know about these guys is that they drink, bicker, and are sad about how out of touch they feel. Also, they’re seriously loaded, which presumably explains how clueless they are. In that sense, the most radical and ostensibly funny thing about Erasmus and Paul is that they get to be openly gay and cartoonishly out-of-touch. That’s not necessarily a good look, but some may consequently find the protagonists of “Ideal Home” to be adequate in an overly precious “Will & Grace” meets “ Mrs. Doubtfire ” kind of way.
Others may be disappointed that “Ideal Home” is not more like “ The Birdcage ” or any of Blake Edwards’s more inclusive comedies, particularly “ Victor/Victoria .” “Ideal Home” lacks those earlier comedies’ fearless willingness to undercut gay stereotypes with sight gags, pithy one-liners, and dramatic asides that reveal how hard it is to be proud when society’s normalizing standard-bearers don’t see yourself like you do. “Ideal Home” is, in that sense, held back by writer/director Andrew Fleming’s seeming lack of imaginative empathy. He doesn’t get far enough into his characters heads to consider the underlying social pressures that motivate Erasmus and Paul’s rocky relationship, and therefore never delivers any meaningfully funny jokes about what it’s like to be a pair of highly visible outsiders.
Instead, Fleming focuses on how rich and clueless Erasmus is, and how frustrated and tired that makes Paul. Erasmus swans around his palatial ranch while filming a program about in-authentic Mexican and Indian food, including kitschy-sounding fusion platters like “Tandoori lobster.” Erasmus also drinks too much, and makes big displays of emotion that are—as Paul correctly intuits—essentially insincere. This leaves Paul to do most of the day-to-day work of caring for Bill, a withdrawn kid who grew up in cheap motels and impersonal fast food restaurants thanks to his deadbeat dad. Bill—born “Angel,” though he hates that name—starts off by sneering at Paul and Erasmus for being gay. He then makes Erasmus and Paul’s lives difficult by refusing to tell them his real name (thereby preventing them from enrolling him in school). Also, he won’t eat anything but Taco Bell. He is poor, sad, and angry, which is apparently amusing?
Anyway, you’d be forgiven for thinking that this all sounds less like an underwhelming range of mountain-shaped mole hills. Erasmus wears a raccoon fur coat and demands the wine list and a better table when he visits Taco Bell. Then Paul tries to bribe Bill into eating Lunchables or Sour Patch Kids, just so Paul doesn’t have to be seen going to Taco Bell. There’s also a couple of uncomfortable, but never really embarassing encounters with concerned social worker Melissa ( Alison Pill ). So what? What do these mild conflicts say about Erasmus and Paul other than “Our creators don’t really understand us beyond a point?”
“Ideal Home” may not be a total dud, but it is a huge waste of both Rudd and Coogan’s talent. Most of the film’s jokes are so shameless and uninspired that even the hackiest improv troupes would be ashamed of them, like when Paul and Erasmus take Bill to the “Dootsh-Baag Art Gallery,” or when Melissa discovers their gay porn stash, featuring titles like “Butt Pluggerz” and “Brokeback Mountin.” The only thing that’s notably funny about these bland routines are the appropriately embarrassed looks on Coogan and Rudd’s faces. Fleming’s jokes are rarely as funny as Coogan and Rudd are, though the bit where Erasmus and Paul have sex on a bear skin rug has an exceptionally hilarious climax.
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Simon Abrams is a native New Yorker and freelance film critic whose work has been featured in The New York Times , Vanity Fair , The Village Voice, and elsewhere.
- Jake McDorman as Beau
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As two well-heeled aesthetes living in a version of gay paradise, where one partner hosts a cooking show that the other produces, Erasmus ( Steve Coogan ) and Paul ( Paul Rudd ) are ambivalent about the prospect of parenthood.
But when Erasmus’s estranged son is sent to prison, leaving Erasmus’s troubled young grandson Bill in his and Paul’s care, the couple adapt to the child’s needs. For better and for worse, their parenting style matches their prickly relationship. Flighty Erasmus plans parties to help Bill make friends, while duty-bound Paul takes over mundane tasks like packing lunches and driving the boy to his Santa Fe elementary school.
The director of “Ideal Home,” Andrew Fleming, based the movie on his own experience as the second parent to his partner’s child, and the movie thrives by depicting the idiosyncratic textures of gay relationships. “Ideal Home” is genuinely funny, and the poignant and pithy script is aided by the chemistry between its stars, who are equally adept with comedic punch lines as they are with dramatic gut punches. Refreshingly, the film’s tone seems pitched more to gay audiences than straight ones. Erasmus and Paul would prefer white wine over beer, thank you, and there is a pleasing and rare lack of self-consciousness about the way the characters engage with their identities.
“Ideal Home” avoids explicitly addressing its politics until the credits, which play over a photo montage of real gay families. Mr. Fleming’s gesture is clearly heartfelt, but in a film that avoids the sappiness so frequently reserved for gay domesticity in popular entertainment, it is the one sentimental sleight of hand that gives the game away.
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Ideal Home Reviews
Several lines and moments remain memorable and laugh-out-loud funny, regardless of its transparent ambitions as a socially progressive comedy.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 11, 2022
At times some of the gags can be a little obvious, but on the whole this has a tight comedic script that plays on both character and situation for plenty of laughs.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2021
Poignant and very funny.
Full Review | May 22, 2021
The film looks and sounds great but what really pulls the viewer in are the humor and the performances. Paul Rudd particularly shines by being his usual self but with something more to it than his usual mildly goofy, sometimes aloof performances.
Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 12, 2020
This is a slight film, but it is a low-key delight.
Full Review | Dec 14, 2019
I enjoyed this far more than I thought I would. Very funny and equally frustrating, mostly because of Coogan's character.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 2, 2019
Families come in an endless assortment. But it's a safe bet that few of them are as ill-assorted at first as flamboyant TV chef Erasmus, his panic attack-prone partner, Paul, and the pugnacious 10-year-old grandson Erasmus didn't know he had.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 7, 2019
Coogan and Rudd get a surprise visitor in Andrew Fleming's gay rom-com, with lightweight results.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 4, 2019
May not be groundbreaking queer cinema but it's a meaningful and genuinely hilarious movie-going experience that caters to a wide audience despite its colourful mentality.
Full Review | May 4, 2019
Like eating an old piece of candy. It tastes sweet but sometimes you can't help feeling its outdatedness.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 12, 2019
Ideal Home is a pretty average comedy with some laughs thanks to the lead performances, but its messy script, Fleming's self-conscious direction and predictable storytelling bring it down a notch.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 18, 2019
Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd star in Ideal Home, a comedy about an upper middle-class couple that feels out of touch, and severely outdated.
Full Review | Nov 1, 2018
Ideal Home is a charming warm-hearted comedy which is guaranteed to bring a smile to your face.
Full Review | Oct 31, 2018
Significantly more earnest and sentimental than one might expect.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 27, 2018
Ideal Home is ultimately a kind of boring and really on the nose movie.
Full Review | Aug 27, 2018
Ideal Home offers a twist on the traditional family dramedy that leans slightly more towards the comedy side of things. It's ideal viewing if you're after a breezy, entertaining watch.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 16, 2018
The breezy romcom approach allows Fleming to touch on several big topics in ways that are never preachy.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 9, 2018
It's badly out of kilter with the plot of Andrew Fleming's comedy, a low-key piece that could have been played more realistically.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 9, 2018
It's well acted and laugh-out-loud funny at times but has its longueurs too.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 9, 2018
Every joke's punchline is that these characters are gay, making it difficult to understand who exactly, in 2018, the film hopes to make laugh.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 8, 2018
Film Review: ‘Ideal Home’
As a gay couple who wind up as parental caretakers, Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd try to enliven a liberal but retrograde big-screen bitchcom.
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“Ideal Home,” a featherweight big-screen sitcom in which Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd play testy romantic partners who wind up as parental caretakers of a 10-year-old boy, is the perfect example of how a movie can be progressive and retrograde at the same time. It’s supposed to feel cutting edge that Coogan and Rudd, who are both terrific actors, adopt a no-big-deal posture toward portraying a gay couple. If only the movie itself were as nonchalant about it! Written and directed by Andrew Fleming, who has had a fluky, hit-or-miss career (“Threesome,” “The Craft”) but built a good comic pedestal for Coogan a decade ago with the dementedly funny “Hamlet 2,” “Ideal Home” is never not painfully aware that its two main characters are gay. It’s a cozy duet of tit-for-tat bitchery that, at times, carries the nagging whisper of a liberal minstrel show.
Instead of treating Erasmus (Coogan), a grandiose monomaniac of a celebrity chef who has his own TV series, and Paul (Rudd), a director of celebrity-chef TV, as characters who happen to be gay, the film puts their sexual identity so front and center, creating such a cliché pile of domestic shade-throwing, that it’s just about the only identity they have.
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That’s especially true in the case of Erasmus, who Coogan plays as a camp diva, a louche darling, a (might as well just say it) raging old queen. Coogan long ago cornered the market on characters who are toxically self-absorbed blithe spirits. He’s a middle-aged peacock of acid-witted narcissism, never more so than when he’s doing a literal gloss on himself — in the “Trip” films (those delectable culinary road movies) or his classic segment of Jim Jarmusch’s “Coffee and Cigarettes.” Here’s the problem, though: In “Ideal Home,” Coogan, swanning about in lip rouge and neck kerchiefs, tries to do a gay variation on the same character, but instead of transforming him into a charismatic foil, Coogan’s flouncy sarcastic masochism just makes it seem like he’s starring in a road-company production of “The Boys in the Band.”
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“Back in the ’80s, when I was experimenting,” he tells Paul, “I had a liaison with a woman, which resulted in a baby — yuck! [eyeroll] — which she wanted to keep.” That “yuck!” is a little…yuck, so dated and unnecessary. Erasmus is informing Paul how he wound up with an adult son, which is necessary to explain how Erasmus’s 10-year-old grandson, the freckled, floppy-haired Angel (Jack Gore), has now shown up at the pair’s sprawlingly tasteful Southwestern ranch in the desert outside Sante Fe. Angel’s dad, Beau (Jake McDorman), is a widowed troublemaker who’s been tossed in jail, which means that he can either hand Angel over to Child Protective Services or foist him off on the kid’s grandfather.
Without putting too fine a point on it, the concept, in its Velveeta way, is just musty enough to be faintly, if innocuously, homophobic. As comedy, “Ideal Home” is built around the notion of “Two neurotic gay men as parental figures? What could be more hilariously incongruous? ” Not that it’s father/son love at first sight. “Get away from me, you fag!” yells Angel as Paul tries to comfort him. But that all quickly melts away. It’s Paul who steps up to look after Angel like an actual devoted parent, and after taking him on one too many trips to Taco Bell, they forge a bond.
“Ideal Home” features one vintage Steve Coogan moment. Paul says to Erasmus, with prickly incredulity, “You’ve got a grandson?” And instead of trying to explain this startling fact, Erasmus points up to his own face and says, “It’s unbelievable, isn’t it? I mean, look, I’ve had no work done.” Is there another actor who pushes vanity into borderline insanity the way Steve Coogan does? Yet in “Ideal Home,” there’s too much old-fashioned inanity. It’s Rudd who has the “straight” role here — with a chic side-shaved haircut and bushy beard, he grounds the film, giving Paul a snappish gravity and charm that helps balance out Coogan’s lip-pursing hysteria.
The movie is about how these two, stuck in a rut after 10 years together, come to have a new appreciation for their partnership, thanks to the nurturing spirit brought on by Angel. But not before they spend a few scenes screaming at each other, and Paul storms off in a huff to go work for Rachael Ray. “Ideal Home” is a trifle, but more than that it’s caught between eras, poised between wanting to crack you up at what cranky prima donnas its characters are and to make you tear up at the revelation of their normal hearts. The result? A comedy of flamboyant banality.
Reviewed on-line, June 20, 2018. MPAA Rating: Not rated. Running time: 94 MIN.
- Production: A Brainstorm Media release of a Remstar Studios, Raygun/Baby Cow Films production. Producers: Arida Aquilana, Lucia Seabra, Aaron Ryder, Gaby Tana, Maria Teresa, Clark Peterson, Maxime Remillard. Executive producer: Lisa Wolofsky.
- Crew: Director, screenplay: Andrew Fleming. Camera (color, widescreen): Alexander Gruszyski. Editor: Jeffrey M. Werner. Music: John Swihart.
- With: Steve Coogan, Paul Rudd, Jack Gore, Alison Pill, Jake McDorman, Jesse Luke, Eric Womack, Jenny Gabrielle, Lora Martinez-Cunningham.
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Ideal Home Review
04 Jul 2018
Few human beings could possibly live up to a name like Erasmus Brumble, but it suits Steve Coogan ’s character in Ideal Home to a T: a narcissistic, entitled, and fabulously gay bon viveur with a modestly successful lifestyle show that allows him to indulge all of these qualities. He’s the antithesis of his husband-slash-producer Paul ( Rudd ), a quiet, bearded intellectual. Maritally speaking, they’re functionally dysfunctional, but their acidic bickering and sniping clearly masks a deep affection for one another.
Naturally, the arrival of Erasmus’ ten-year-old grandson throws a spanner into their well-manicured works, moving into their plush New Mexico pueblo while his dad (Jake McDorman), Erasmus’ son from a pre-gay one night stand, serves some jail time. “We can’t have a kid,” Paul complains. “We are kids.” He’s half right: Erasmus is the overgrown man-child incapable of thinking of anyone but himself, but Paul proves surprisingly adept at the parenting thing, even though he says it’s like “babysitting the boy from The Shining ”.
A decade ago, writer-director Andrew Fleming gifted Coogan a memorable film role in the uneven, but still underrated, Hamlet 2 , and here he helps Coogan to craft an even more indelible character, whether he’s blithely asking for the wine list at Taco Bell, or self-mythologising by claiming to have studied at Oxford. “You went to a cooking school in the town of Oxford,” Paul reminds him.
Of course, Coogan gets all of the fun, flashy stuff to do, but look closely and it’s clear that the Rain Man Effect applies: Rudd is every bit as good in the less showy role. The film is at its best when we’re hanging with the Coogan-Rudd comedy dream team, and at its weakest when it ‘goes all Hollywood’ and people (especially the kid) start learning and growing. But Ideal Home has it where it counts.
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The makers of the well-meaning queer-themed dramatic-comedy "Ideal Home" are smart enough to treat their middle-aged gay characters—desperate-to-please celebrity chef Erasmus (Steve Coogan) and his crabby producer/partner Paul ()—with enough sensitivity to make you want to root for them.Unfortunately, it's hard not to be disappointed by writer/director Andrew Fleming's tepid jokes ...
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Ideal Home is a 2018 American comedy-drama film, written and directed by Andrew Fleming and starring Steve Coogan, Paul Rudd, Alison Pill, Jake McDorman, ... the film holds an approval rating of 68%, based on 56 reviews, and an average rating of 5.8/10. The critical consensus reads: "Ideal Home benefits from the chemistry between a well-chosen ...
The director of "Ideal Home," Andrew Fleming, based the movie on his own experience as the second parent to his partner's child, and the movie thrives by depicting the idiosyncratic textures ...
'Ideal Home': Film Review. Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd play a gay couple who suddenly find themselves caring for a 10-year-old boy in Andrew Fleming's comedy 'Ideal Home.'
Erasmus and Paul (Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd) are a bickering gay couple whose life is turned inside out when a ten-year old boy shows up at their door claiming to be Erasmus' grandson. Neither Paul, nor Erasmus, are ready to give up their extravagant lifestyles to be parents, but maybe this little kid has thing or two to teach them about the value of family.
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The movie is about how these two, stuck in a rut after 10 years together, come to have a new appreciation for their partnership, thanks to the nurturing spirit brought on by Angel. ... Film Review ...
Ideal Home: Directed by Andrew Fleming. With Steve Coogan, Paul Rudd, Jesse Luken, Evan Bittencourt. A bickering gay couple must suddenly deal with the unexpected task of raising a 10-year-old boy.
Naturally, the arrival of Erasmus' ten-year-old grandson throws a spanner into their well-manicured works, moving into their plush New Mexico pueblo while his dad (Jake McDorman), Erasmus' son ...