RevRonster Satire is huge right now on the internet but not everyone can make it work. It's a difficult craft that has to have a balance of looking real enough to feel like it belongs with the product that is being made fun of but also ridiculous enough where (most) people don't fall for it and think it's real. "A Deadly Adoption," in my opinion, found that perfect formula.The film looks and feels like a real Lifetime Original (only with far better acting) and in that realism is where the film becomes very funny. This Lifetime movie never sits there and childishly mocks these specific types of film like you'd get from a "Scary Movie" or equally poorly produced parody. Instead, the film feels like a loving representation of Lifetime's products and, it is in that representation, that the humor is derived from. I found it to be a very creative and unique work of comedy and it was definitely entertaining to sit through. Not to mention, it's just cool that both Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell are refusing to allow their comedic talents to become stagnate and repetitive and it's pretty neat that Lifetime has a good enough sense of humor about itself and allowed this all happen.

phd_travel I don't know what to make of this movie. It's got A list movie stars like Will Ferrell and Kristin Wiig in a lifetime thriller. As it unfolds it becomes more like a spoof of a lifetime thriller. An evil woman scams a couple into thinking she's giving up her baby for them to adopt.Will Ferrell rising from being shot and going after the bad guys is just laugh out loud. The beautiful Jessica Lowndes is a good villain. And the way they were so happy even though their friends were killed and dancing around at the end is just ludicrous.Watch it for the stars but be warned it's weird.

powermandan Review title doesn't make much sense? Read this review and you will understand where I am coming from.Will Ferrell's career has been on the down-low as of late. Sure he did Anchorman 2 and Get Hard, but less than ten years ago he did a hit movie every year. Surprised to hear about him doing an all-out serious role, I really wanted to see this. The movie was less than thirty minutes in when I already could not take it seriously enough.This is inspired by a true story, so I'm not sure how much is real. Either way, the story is a little bit weird. It is a mix between Fatal Attraction and Taken. Will Ferrell and Kirsten Wiig are a couple on the rocks after an accident causes Wiig to have a stillborn. A seemingly nice young woman approaches them wanting them to adopt her soon-to-be baby since she has no means of support. We learn her secret between her and Will Ferrell, as well as her real intentions.The movie is predictable and clichéd all the way through. But it is still cheesy and fun. I loved seeing life-long comics playing something completely serious. Were they good? Not really. But the villain was awesome. When the movie finished, I said "This reminds me of a 90s Jean-Claude Van Damme movie. Or a PG-13 rated Arnold movie." There wasn't stupidity (Thank-God!) but nothing clever either. I think this was made to show to funny people trying to be serious.Why do I call this a "grill cheese sandwich!"? It is the best kind of cheesy movie: one you can't take seriously but can still put you in the moment.

copo26 Anticipated this movie. Very disappointed. If this was intended to be a spoof of Lifetime's melodramas, it failed abysmally. Waaaay too subtle for me.Script - Stunk. Could have been written by a team of 12 year olds, stupified by PopTarts and Dr Pepper. Generic dialogue and plot. A 'thriller' with no thrills. Predictable. Included every stereotype and cliché. All, I assume, intentional to elicit booming laughter. A fail.Note to writer, Andrew Steele (former writer for SNL): If parody was your objective, exaggeration....blowing things out of proportion.... is needed. That was missing....so the viewer was left to make some kind of sense of it, one way or other. Not an enjoyable task. Irritating.Acting - Stunk. Looked forward to seeing Wiig and Ferrel either in a spoof or in serious roles. Still waiting. Robotic acting with painfully slow takes (meant to be funny?) and little emotional range (same reason?) Caricatures? Missed the mark by miles.Directing - Stunk...ie...Closely following the bad guy's car on a dirt road and parking a stone's throw from his cabin...in day light? Really? Really? Kid is missing and Mom is not moved a bit.Neither comedy or drama....though the family's extended 'dance' scene in the end was worthy of a smirk.If the whole thing was a 'gag'...success at last! You made me gag.Could have been a clever parody. Wasn't. A waste of time and talent.