This is the perfect movie for a family to see together while everyone is home for the holiday.
Its director and co-writer, Sean Anders, has made a couple of movies I thought were reasonably funny (like the first Daddy’s Home) and more I thought were not (like Horrible Bosses 2).
The trailers and the concept — happy-go-lucky couple are thrown for a loop when they adopt three children — suggested Instant Family would be a sappy, cliché-ridden mess.
They take classes about foster care led by the droll, no-b.s. odd couple of Octavia Spencer and Tig Notaro.