What’s Aged the Best?
Kieran Culkin, Kimberly Williams, San Marino, the basketball scene, the overwhelmed father, changing marriage norms, and the hot-dog arithmetic all receive praise.
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- Kieran Culkin's small reactions are newly funny because the child performance anticipates his later Roman Roy mannerisms.
- The child performance plays the role simply and still nails the few kid-scene-stealing moments.
- Kimberly Williams is delightful and immediately believable as Steve Martin's daughter.
- Williams and Martin create father-daughter chemistry even in quiet basketball movement.
- The movie defined Williams so strongly as Annie that the panel had difficulty imagining an obvious next role for her.
- San Marino is praised as an unusually pleasant, beautiful Southern California setting.
- The basketball scene is unusually convincing for a movie father-daughter game.
- The montage shows enough continuous movement to suggest that Steve Martin made at least one trick shot himself.
- An overwhelmed father struggling to afford a wedding remains a durable comic plot.
- The wedding-planning escalation still feels accurate because small decisions rapidly add expense and complexity.
- The film is presented as marking the baby-boomer generation's move away from countercultural ideas of marriage.
- The hot-dog and bun mismatch remains relatable because mismatched package quantities still create needless arithmetic.