Krazy House (2024)
2/10
Too busy, rushed parody comedy, which is therefore no longer so comical itself.
17 May 2024
Krazy House is a new comedy directed, written and partly produced by Steffen Haars and Flip Van Der Kuil, the creators of the New Kids TV series and subsequent films.

Christian househusband Bernie (Nick Frost) and his career wife Eva (Alicia Silverstone) have a typical sitcom family like those from many sitcoms in the 90s.

When problems arise in the house, Russian handymen come to help, but these handymen turn out to be criminals looking for a hidden fortune. This is how they deceive Bernie and his family until they find this fortune. As a result, Bernie must cautiously resist to protect his family and get the criminals out of his house.

With this comedy they seem to have playfully made a spoof comedy film in the New Kids style. For example, they playfully try to make sitcoms such as Married with Children, Friends and Goede Tide, Bad Times somewhat ridiculous with exaggeratedly different moments from these sitcoms. In addition, they also use exaggerated, gory moments, making it a bit like live-action versions of animated comedies like Family Guy or South Park.

The last good spoof comedy seems far away and other spoof comedies such as the last Scary Movie, A Haunted House or Fifty Shades of Black just didn't really work as successfully anymore. In this new spoof comedy, lame, clichés from sitcoms are made more ridiculous. Making good sitcoms ridiculous is not that easy, because most of them still work well and are loved by fans. Behind most of these sitcoms are also good teams of writers, who have come up with their own unique comedy styles. Most of them managed to come up with creative stories with their own form of comedy. For example, most of these sitcoms are more comedic than this spoof comedy itself tries to be. This spoof comedy remains on a predictable side in terms of comedy. The final story remains difficult to follow due to the messy aspects, which means that the rest of the comedy is somewhat lost.

This is also due to the messier aspects of this comedy itself. This one tries to go through too many different things too quickly, and then makes them a bit ridiculous. This film was filmed in the fast pace of 22 days, so the directors don't really seem to have taken the time to look back carefully and critically at their final film.
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