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- Lifetime
Summary After 2014's The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story, Lifetime returns with one for the 1980s family comedy featuring some stories from Bob Saget's memoir Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian.
- TV-PG
- Lifetime
- TV-PG
- Lifetime
The Unauthorized Full House Story
Season 1 Premiere: Aug 22, 2015
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Summary After 2014's The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story, Lifetime returns with one for the 1980s family comedy featuring some stories from Bob Saget's memoir Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian.
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Generally Unfavorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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29% Mixed
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71% Negative
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5 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
34
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
71% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
A few nice turns by Brawith as Saget aren’t enough to make The Unauthorized Full House Movie more than a connect-the-dots, dish-a-little-dirt, spoon-a-little-sugar, cut-print diversion. Still, it’s nowhere near a desecration, giving fans of the series a basically harmless glimpse at how the thing came together and somehow stayed together.
The movie features plenty of the predictable near misses and fortuitous moments en route to 192 episodes and oodles of syndication cash..... Fortunately, the project delivers a slightly higher TV IQ than its predecessor, with a couple of reasonably funny (and historically accurate) bits.
The film doesn’t function as a remotely competent representation of its namesake show. We never discover anything about Full House that can’t be found on its Wikipedia page, and the performances, with the exception of Gaston and Mader, fail to capture the essence of the memorable--albeit one-note--characters and the actors who portrayed them.
Writer Ron McGee treats Full House as though it was a sacred icon whose pop-culture history must be maintained at all costs--in this case, the costs being believability and narrative momentum.
Tedious.... It’s more skin-deep fan-fiction that imitates the sickly decency that was Full House’s stock-in-trade.
Unauthorized captures the feel-good part. Unfortunately, it misses the “written well” part. Like, completely.
The bar for quality is set pretty low. But this entry, unlike the previous “Save by the Bell” exposé, does nothing to justify its own existence.
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Production Company:
- Bay Road Productions
- Bay Road Productions
- Front Street Pictures
- Lifetime
Initial Release Date: Aug 22, 2015
Number of seasons: 0 Seasons
Rating: TV-PG
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Awards
Young Artist Awards
• 1 Nomination
Young Entertainer Awards
• 1 Nomination
