The Out-Laws has a very clever premise, although it's a variation on a theme that has been done a few times before. In this case, bank manager Owen Browning and his fiancee Parker McDermott (Adam Devine and Nina Dobrev) are about to tie the knot when her parents suddenly announce that they -- ostensibly off living with an indigenous tribe in South America -- will attend the wedding after all. Enter Billy and Lilly McDermott (Pierce Brosnan and Ellen Barkin), who have very large personalities ... and are not all that they seem.

It turns out they're international bank robbers, and after gaining secret information from Owen while he was drunk, they target his bank for a $1 million heist. He realizes who they are, however, which causes an understandable strain in their budding family relationship. His soon-to-be wife, of course, doesn't believe a word of it.

Then Rehan Zakaryan (Poorna Jagannathan) enters the picture. She's the McDermotts' former partner in crime, and she's still miffed that they absconded with a previous windfall. She wants her money back -- with interest. Knowing the McDermotts are in town, she kidnaps Parker to force them to meet her demands.

Suddenly, Owen and his would-be in-laws are allies in planning yet another bank job to raise the $5 million they need to satisfy Rehan and get Parker back. Meanwhile, FBI Agent Oldham (Michael Rooker) is trying to nab the McDermotts after a lengthy chase.

The biggest problem with the movie is that no one in it is really all that likable. Milquetoast Owen is an annoying wuss who gets downright embarrassing after one drink and who screams far more than is necessary. (I'm pretty sure he thinks his shrieks of terror are more comical than they actually are.)

Owen's parents (Richard Kind and Julie Hagerty) are entertainingly quirky, but endlessly complaining and judgmental. Parker's parents are ... well, they're the eponymous outlaws, so there's some questionable morality there. So, while I'm always up for Pierce Brosnan and Ellen Barkin, their characters aren't really good people, and they leave a lot of mayhem in their wake.

I guess that just leaves Parker, Owen's fiancee, who is sweet without making all that much of an impression. Even Owen's co-workers are irritating people, as is his competitive cross-town bank manager Phoebe King (Lauren Lapkus).

It's a comedy, but much of the movie is more about cringing than laughing. Filmmakers should have at least made their protagonist a bit endearing, but his foibles are so overblown that it's hard to root for him.

The denouement includes a ludicrously simplified bank robbery that relies on far too many coincidences, followed by a resolution that makes even less sense -- particularly when you consider several unexpected turns in the plan that could not have been accounted for in advance.

The movie overflows with jokes that you can tell were striving to be funny but landed with a thud. Honestly, only the four parents -- who could not be from more different worlds -- made the movie even slightly entertaining.