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

Country-girl, Gugino meets rock 'n' roller, surfer-dude (comedian Pauly Shore) while attending college in California; they fall in love (for reasons that remain a mystery to the audience) and she brings him back to the farm to meet his future in-laws. Shore spends most of the film's running-time making animal noises and pronouncing words in a slightly unconventional manner because the writers couldn't be bothered to come up with any jokes. To top it off, the leading lady is also a bitch who heartlessly dumps her boyfriend for the sake of our "charming" genetic- defect, and while this movie does try to justify this by making him a cheater. The problem is, she doesn't find out until the end, so for all she knew, she could have been breaking the heart of an innocent man. Let me tell help you out here movie; merely making one character an ass doesn't exempt the other from being a bitch. Also, merely exaggerating the length of a word (buuuuuuuudy) isn't funny. Lazy humor at it's, err, laziest.

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.

Here's another of these modern-day ultra-sleaze comedies in which dysfunctional families are supposedly hilarious. Know wonder people once asked, "What ever happened to Pauly Shore?" Well, Shore didn't disappear, but his career took a nose-dive, that's for sure. Movies like this one, didn't help.In "Son-In-Law," Shore plays an incredibly-obnoxious character called "Crawl," and yet he's the most likable of the family! His father is a profane idiot; his mother is totally incompetent, his young brother is a sex maniac and his college-age sister is a real snot.Watching an hour and a half of totally-unlikeable people was tough to do. I certainly wouldn't watch this again, or recommend it to anyone but die-hard Shore fans. Adam Sandler took Pauley's shtick and went a lot further with it.The following is an excerpt from the IMDb title page here under "biography" and it explains why I am not the only one who was disgusted with this movie."........but his lunacy was dismissed as crude, dumb and, for the most part, unfunny. His film career quickly tanked. This downhill spiral was not helped by the failure of his failed Fox sitcom "Pauly" (1997) in 1997. Lambasted unmercifully by both critics and media alike, he was soon becoming a running joke and forced to lie low and ride out the storm...."