Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Having gotten a taste of college life, a drastically changed farm girl returns home for Thanksgiving break with her best friend, a flamboyant party animal who is clearly a fish out of water in a small farm town.Pauly Shore movies are a strange lot. They aren't good, they aren't bad. They can often be annoying, especially as the Shore shtick does not age well as time passes. You get some good supporting cast like Tiffani Thiessen and Lane Smith, which helps, but doesn't completely fix the problem.And yet, like a car crash, somehow I am drawn to watch. I saw most of Shore's work in the 1990s, and for some reason am watching them again now (2016). They haven't gotten any better, but do sort of capture an aspect of the 90s -- particularly the "MTV 90s" -- that few other films completely attempt.

Pretty high school valedictorian Carla Gugino (as Rebecca Warner) leaves her wealthy small-town family for a college in Southern California. Living in the fast lane agrees with Ms. Gugino. She hooks up with RA ("Resident Adviser") dorm slacker Pauly Shore (as "Crawl"). They become so inseparable Gugino invites Mr. Shore to spend Thanksgiving break on her farm. The family is shocked by Mr. Shore's appearance and behavior. They want Shore and Gugino to break up, but the prospective "Son-in-Law" has other plans...The co-stars' courtship is strange, with Shore and Gugino seeming more like platonic pals. Shore calls Gugino "fresh meat" and jokes about arousal when spying a beautifully-proportioned woman at the beach, so we assume he's straight. Gugino has no trouble kissing Tom Cruise-type ex-boyfriend Dan Gauthier (as Travis). A final scene reveals the depth of their relationship. There is enough herein to partly amuse an adolescent audience, with young Patrick Renna (as Zack) looking juvenile chic in his "Seduce Me, Please" tee-shirt.*** Son-in-Law (7/2/93) Steve Rash ~ Pauly Shore, Carla Gugino, Lane Smith, Patrick Renna

I can't believe how low of a rating this movie has. I just watched this movie for the first time in years, and if anything... this movie has more great comedy in it than the garbage coming out these days. Pauly Shore is hilarious, Lane Smith does such a hilarious job too, well the entire cast was great. Sure the story line might be a tad bit predictable, but what's funnier than seeing someone like Pauly Shore handle farm life? This is definitely one of the top movies of 1993. Great humour, great cast, great music... it's definitely not like the movies made today where its all about male sluts hooking up with girls constantly or all sexually oriented. This is a true comedy classic. Clearly those who voted so low don't have a sense of humour.10 out of 10 for sure.

"Son in Law" is a fairly entertaining country-boy/city-boy comedy starring the now much-maligned Pauly Shore. It's a basic twist on an old formula: here, young girl from conservative small-town America goes to college, meets druggie super-senior boy, brings him home for Thanksgiving, ends of up deceiving family into thinking they're engaged. Of course, Pauly's character ends up pulling the usual gags as he tries to make himself a farmer.There are plenty of flaws in this film, but it manages to make itself a pleasant and entertaining nonetheless. The fish-out-f-water comedy is driven by stereotypes of country and city life, and the two main characters are never really developed as characters. All we ever learn about Rebecca, the female lead, is that she is a college freshman impressionable enough to transform from conservative to rebel on the strength of a few trips out with her RA. That RA, in Pauly Shore, is never explored in the script very much either, but makes much more of an impression due to Shore's extravagant performance. His dopey, burned-out, uninhibited character is the kind that I might have considered unbelievable if I hadn't actually met people like that in college (likewise, the played-up college scenes at the beginning might have seemed over the top if they hadn't resembled a real college dorm slightly exaggerated).The movie turns on Shore's noisy but mellow Californian character, and most of the comedy comes not from the dime-a-dozen plot but from placing this particular crazy nut in a variety of incongruous situations. Often enough this works and while Shore might not be the greatest actor in history he certainly manages to put on a reasonably effective broad-comic persona. The best characters, actually, are Rebecca's family, which actually show hints of complexity and realism in their violent but understandable reaction to Crawl's intrusion into their lives, and their gruffness turning to friendliness.Don't expect any big surprises of heaps of subtlety from this mainstream comedy, but truth be told I had fun watching it