Parents' Guide to Passport

There's a decent pace and scripting to this comedic drama, but many viewers might not find the film funny or dramatic enough. In Passport, most of the conversations and dialogue aren't entirely convincing. And the sequences of events aren't exactly believable, either, in that if this film wasn't a comedy, the plot holes and logical lapses wouldn't hold up. Not that they necessarily do here. Some of the acting feels rushed, many lines of dialogue are stumbled over, and characters spend too much time questioning other characters ("Why would you say that?" "What are you going to do?" "Who said you should do that?"), arguing for longer than necessary (characters' extended arguments alone extend this film's runtime at least 30 minutes), and making what seems to be big "to-dos" over every little thing (filler dialogue to pad out scenes).

The story is thin as well. No one Oscar knows can help him get back to London, nor does he look into how to get a rush passport. Instead, he enlists the help of a woman who has absolutely no reason or incentive to help him. She even decides to help him after he insults her for hours. Further, a handful of logical issues and problems of consistency pop up, like when and how certain characters get certain information, how Oscar knew his passport had fallen into the hands of the half-villain, Terminator X, and why certain characters wouldn't just threaten and scare Oscar away from the start. But of course, then there'd be no movie. This all makes more sense because the film is clearly a comedy, but unfortunately, there aren't many laugh-out-loud moments.