Actors directing their own movies sounds like the stuff that nightmares are made of, but Jason Bateman has a surprising flair for being in the director's chair.
He plays Guy, a real life Grinch who sneaks through the cracks of being eligible and ends up competing in a children's spelling bee for reasons that even his reporter can't screw out of him. The whole cast is a riot. Bateman is gleefully nasty, Allison Janney holds nothing back as the president of the spelling bee, and Rohan Chand couldn't be any more charming as the Cindy Lou Who to Bateman's Grinch.
Even as the movie starts getting sentimental, it never gets sappy and the relationship between Bateman and Chand's characters is surprisingly endearing. Bad Words is a R-I-O-T.
3/4
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