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Sure, you'll get some easy laughs, but no originality.
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There's nothing wrong with that cast. Simmons and Remini, in particular, play off each other expertly, and provide a nice, tart balance to Bornheimer's sweeter character. But despite their best efforts, the show just floats along, weightless, innocuous and eminently forgettable.
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The show itself is standard construction, a framework of planks that will need more work. [6 May 2013, p.48]
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[The] clunky scenes work thanks to the exceptional cast. These actors can sell anything. Almost.
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The pilot half aims for the exaggerated, other-worldly tone of "Arrested Development" and misses.... The second episode, by contrast, has a healthy dose of the ordinary mixed in and is actually about something: the invisibility of the working class.
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There are a few successful jokes here and there, and some able physical comedy involving Bornheimer and Gathegi, but those moments get lost in the shuffle of predictability.
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Family Tools is an occasionally funny (but mostly not) show about a son who takes over his father's handyman business.
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Wedged between the superior company of The Middle and Modern Family is the bumbling blandness of the slapsticky Family Tools.
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Instead of trusting this foundation and these actors, though, Family Tools seems to feel it must make every situation and interaction so outrageous it turns the characters into cartoons.
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With a concept and general feeling this tired, when it comes to forging any lasting bonds, Family will likely discover water is thicker than blood.
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[A] stinker of a family sitcom.
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With Tools, there is no discernible style, or point of view, or voice, or humor that ever rises to the level of originality.
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It’s a grindingly bad half-hour with some even worse finishing touches.
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A mostly appealing cast is wasted in a laugh-starved show about a relentless screw-up of a man-child who has never been able to find a career path, much less make his dad proud of him.
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Whatever made the original somewhat of a surprise success is clearly absent here, as Family Tools wastes its audience's time with stale, threadbare material that should've never seen the light of day.
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A stinkbomb sent to critics last summer that is now getting the burnoff it deserves at season’s end.