A great story that left a little lacking in the execution. This movie could have been brilliant. It could have been an instant classic and a voice for our era.To begin I thought the film had some serious problems in structure. It took too long to get to the crucial moment in the story (the death). The ending made me think that they just had no idea of how to bring the story to conclusion.I thought they made way too much effort to make the son out to be a low-level sociopath when he could have just been a very average kid who watches too much porn and has no other interests outside of virtual reality. I know lots of kids who don't seem to have a bit of passion for anything other than their cell phones and video games. This describes a lot of kids these days and a lot of parents would recognize their own offspring in this group. For that matter many adults fit this modus operandi. So in review, back off on making the kid a new version of Charles Manson and get to his death a lot sooner.The next problem was the writing. If you want the kid to be a posthumous hero then you have to write a great suicide note. The one in the film was mediocre, at best. This was where the story really should have begun, at about 20 minutes (in the film he finds the body at 36 minutes and then there was an entire MTV music video of grief…totally corny and over-done). I also didn't think that t was necessary to foreshadow the auto-erotica asphyxiation and it sort of took away from the actual death.Now should have come the really interesting part in the film. The kid's diary could have been a treatise against all of the ills that plague this generation of kids with too much screen time and not much in the way of reality. They have it too comfortable, their parents indulge them too much, their identities are drowned out by celebrity worship, etc.

I expected a comedy, after all it said it was a comedy and Robin Williams who usually does comedy's was in it.So I was not happy when to my surprise this movie was seriously depressing. By the end of the movie I wanted to kill myself. which if you watch the movie you'll see how ironic that statement is. If you want to watch a comedy, do not watch this movie. I wanted to laugh, did I laugh? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, I did not. The main character's life is seriously depressing. Everything that can go wrong, does and then the end does not even make sense. I'm like, why? why is he doing that? I didn't like the beginning, middle or the end. All for different reason. Number one reason is this is not a comedy. I feel like I was duped.

Where were the people who should, or at least could, have been looking out for Robin Williams? True, this inept waddle was made in 2009, years before William's suicide, and so it may be a stretch to ask this question but honestly, this is one of the most unskilled lumpy pieces of nothing ever foisted on the public. The far greater insult is to Robin Williams, possibly the most electrically brilliant comedian of all time. How lost must he have been, how blunted his aim and good judgment to have agreed to partake in this amateur production. Who the hell is this Bobcat Goldthwaite anyway?? What a depressing little cobbled-together thing, this film? What a bunch of sad sacks (ah yes, but that's the point, amongst others,fella). Dreary performances and infinitely worse, watching Williams and speculating that performing this drudge probably adding to the stockpile of despair, self-loathing and hopelessness which led to his tragic end. On all levels this film is inept, amateur, uninteresting and devoid of hope.

Just 10 days shy of the 5-year anniversary of the limited release of World's Greatest Dad, Robin Williams' life ended eerily like his character's son did. This prompted my friend to watch this and request that I, too, see it and share my thoughts.I had never seen it, but wasn't opposed to seeing it – I do love Robin Williams all around and especially in his darker and deeper humor roles such as Insomnia and One Hour Photo. Boy, was I taken aback.Not by the subject matter or the potential idea placed in Williams' head, but because of how light they made of suicide, including unintentional suicide. I understand this is a dark comedy and certainly not meant as a laugh-out-loud riot, but it was actually painful how the "director/writer" (ha - Bobcat Goldthwait) all-but made fun of young kids who commit suicide.Backing up, the movie follows an unsuccessful writer/single father/teacher who's raising a definite problem child. Mean, cross, dumb, sexually frustrated and horribly homophobic this kid is, but the dad, Lance (Williams) isn't doing much to stop it. His own depression and self-pity is clearly sending his son on the wrong path. No real spoiler – it is the film's premise, one night the kid, Kyle, lost the battle on his (at least) second attempt at erotic asphyxiation and in probably the only selfless motion from the Lance, he makes it look like just a hanging in the closet to save his son some embarrassment. He even writes a suicide note using his own writing techniques.Sadly – well, less sadly than the loss of a son, things spiral out of control as the deceased brat becomes a hero throughout the school both he attended and Lance worked. Daddy now has to struggle with both the lies upon lies and the fact he's finally be recognized for his writing capability, albeit indirectly.The movie's obviously going somewhere and you know where. At least you know until the final WTF finale in which you get to see a fully nude, aging Williams skinny dip. I get why they did it, but it didn't help my disgust throughout the entire film where they basically make suicide a kind of a joke.The movie is riddled with very bad people and in fact, hardly contains a single soul you can attach yourself to. You have the brat of Kyle, the selfish father, the player teacher, the Sauvé, but deceitful other teacher, the blind principal, the abused and likes it only friend and the power hungry psychologist. So, even though this is that kind of movie that is not peppy, nor motivating, it is sadly disrespectable to make comedic light of kids killing themselves.Unless…I completely misinterpreted this movie and it's literally trying to make the darkest and most evil movie. Actually, I think I'm giving them too much credit. * * *Final thoughts: I miss Robin Williams. The day he passed, I was driving home from work and heard the news on our talk radio station; only, I came into the middle of the "breaking news" segment. For the longest of time, they spoke of someone huge who passed, but wouldn't say his name. Finally, they mentioned "…And he loved San Francisco…" and immediately, I thought: "Oh, my God. Robin Williams is dead."Finally, they confirmed it, and I took the rest of the night in deep sadness as if I'd lost a friend. I didn't want to watch a movie of his, because I was too shaken up from the loss of this absolute genius. Eventually, I broke down and put in Aladdin, a movie I hadn't seen in a least a decade. I sang and cried through that.Even here, in World's Greatest Dad, he was great. It's just too bad that the movie wasn't and hopefully this didn't officially make him think about suicide until it got too hard half a decade later.