Before its 2015 release, the project had been wrapped in secrecy, according toThe AV Club’s review.
The review called it “a fun oddity instead of the minor cultural moment it could have been.”
At ATX, Ferrell shared the motivation behind the project.
“I kept thinking it would be fun to star in a Lifetime movie,” he said.
But, somehow, this got made.
However, Steele said at ATX that he had been writing out of his element.
“The writing is bad, but it was the very best I could do.”
This perspective was supported byThe Hollywood Reporter’s review.
This matches what Ferrell described as green-lighting on the movie.
At each development benchmark, Ferrell expected Lifetime to refuse their requests.
“The best parodies are acts of loving possession that dig deep,” the review stated.
ButThe AV Club’s reviewersaw the movie as an authentic tribute to Lifetime-level absurdism.
