Is That a Gun in Your Pocket? (2016)

This is a toothless satire, a sermon lacking the bite or broad wit of similar films.

Cooper weaves a few well-placed observations about gun culture and male condescension into the heavy-handed mess.

Most of the time, though, the movie is too busy being saucy or sappy to even look at its target.

Is That a Gun resorts to smutty humor and moralistic speeches to confront the issue of American gun violence in the wake of Newtown, Conn. This movie uses those murdered babies’ name in vain.

The film combines agonizing scenes of didactic earnestness about gun violence with the absolutely soul-crushing ennui of flaccid marriage jokes.