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Family Game Fight

  • TV Series
  • 2021–2022
  • TV-PG
  • 1h
IMDb RATING
5.9/10
257
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Family Game Fight (2021)
Family Game Fight: The Jex Family Vs. The Bruin Bros.
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9 Videos
11 Photos
Game Show

Bell and Shepard being "adopted" into individual families of four to compete in a series of games with a big cash prize up for grabs.Bell and Shepard being "adopted" into individual families of four to compete in a series of games with a big cash prize up for grabs.Bell and Shepard being "adopted" into individual families of four to compete in a series of games with a big cash prize up for grabs.

  • Creators
    • Kristen Bell
    • Andy Lassner
    • Joel Van Rysselberghe
  • Stars
    • Kristen Bell
    • Dax Shepard
    • Eli Braden
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    5.9/10
    257
    YOUR RATING
    • Creators
      • Kristen Bell
      • Andy Lassner
      • Joel Van Rysselberghe
    • Stars
      • Kristen Bell
      • Dax Shepard
      • Eli Braden
    • 11User reviews
    • 1Critic review
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • Episodes10

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    TopTop-rated1 season

    Videos9

    Family Game Fight: What's Between The Sheets
    Clip 1:07
    Family Game Fight: What's Between The Sheets
    Family Game Fight: Rubber Band Weapon
    Clip 0:49
    Family Game Fight: Rubber Band Weapon
    Family Game Fight: Rubber Band Weapon
    Clip 0:49
    Family Game Fight: Rubber Band Weapon
    Family Game Fight: The Jex Family Vs. The Bruin Bros.
    Trailer 3:48
    Family Game Fight: The Jex Family Vs. The Bruin Bros.
    Family Game Fight: The Banayan Family Vs. The Williams Family
    Trailer 4:55
    Family Game Fight: The Banayan Family Vs. The Williams Family
    Family Game Fight: The Life Savers Vs. The A Plus Team
    Trailer 0:49
    Family Game Fight: The Life Savers Vs. The A Plus Team
    Family Game Fight: The Collins Family Vs. The Bailey Family
    Trailer 3:17
    Family Game Fight: The Collins Family Vs. The Bailey Family

    Photos11

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    Kristen Bell
    Kristen Bell
    • Self - Host
    • 2021–2022
    Dax Shepard
    Dax Shepard
    • Self - Host
    • 2021–2022
    Eli Braden
    • Self - Announcer
    • 2021–2022
    Joel Van Rysselberghe
    • Self - Referee
    • 2021
    Rodney Damon Collins
    Rodney Damon Collins
    • Self
    • 2021
    Josiah Collins
    Josiah Collins
    • Self - Contestant
    • 2021
    • Creators
      • Kristen Bell
      • Andy Lassner
      • Joel Van Rysselberghe
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    User reviews11

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    9ebmilkyway

    Entertaining

    The show is fun to watch. Do hope they add a few more games but it is entertaining. Dax and Kristen have great chemistry with the contestants and it's cute how they interact with each other. Add more episodes per season.
    8bookishboxbinge

    Great Family Fun

    I love Dax and Kristen , they're hilarious and have amazing chemistry. The games are fun and wholesome to watch. Hope they add more games and more complicated ones in the future.
    5preppy-3

    On one hand I like it--on the other I hate it

    Real life married couple Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell each help families compete against each other for cash prizes.

    On one hand I like the show. Shepard and Bell are great hosts and the show moves at a quick pace. On the other hand I hate it. The families are TOO energetic--always screaming and yelling. Also most of the games are mean-spirited and seem designed to humiliate the families. One game has the losers continuously being hit in the face with pies. Another has freezing cold ice and water being poured on the losers. One had them all dressed in banana suits! I keep watching because I like Shepard and Bell but the mean-spirited games get on my nerves.
    10Dog-River

    Very Entertaining!

    I'm actually really enjoying this game show. Dax and Kristin make good hosts and are lots of fun. I love how they get in on the action, rather than just standing on the sidelines watching. I find it more entertaining to watch. Yes, they do similar games to Ellen's, a couple are the same with a twist, but it's still fun to watch. My favourite game is the brain freeze game. I think this game show is perfect for any age to watch. I recommend watching it.
    2asherstuhlman

    A game show that doesn't know why people watch game shows

    This show is a loose spinoff of Ellen's talk show and Ellen's Game of Games, and it takes some inspiration from them - games involve putting the contestants into painful/annoying/humiliating situations (one game has contestants pelted by lots of snow if they guess a wrong answer; another game has contestants pied in the face if the opposing team scores a point.)

    Now, I don't like Ellen's Game of Games, but it's hard to deny that that show has a clear voice and thing it's trying to do. I only watched one episode of Family Game Fight, but it's really hard for me to puzzle out what this show is trying to be about. In Ellen's Game of Games, the contestants screaming at the host is the point; here it seems like the hosts are more concerned with each other than anything else going on. They banter (terribly), they make jokes about each other that barely rise above "Take my wife... please!" In a good game show, the banter is about the contestants and the game's content. Family Feud hosts will react to contestant's ridiculous answers emotionally and get to know a bit about the families for instance.

    None of that happens here. There are elaborate sets brought out to play 3 minutes of actual game; the sets are aggressively themed and no two themes interact or intersect. The games played are tired word games, which don't have anything to do with the sets. They're not bad games but they contribute to the feeling that this show doesn't really have anything to say, and there's this overall feeling of ludonarrative dissonance where the show doesn't really establish its "world" and internal logic. There's a weird sports aesthetic on the scoreboard that never comes up in the games.

    The most confusing thing to me is that sometimes the contestants aren't even involved. The episode I watched opened with the hosts playing a game with each other, with essentially no contestant involvement: the contestants had to guess how well the hosts would do, and that's it. What's the fun of a game show where the contestants aren't the ones playing the game?

    Worst of all, I don't even get the feeling that the hosts are having fun. They do not interact like normal people interact, which is ridiculous because the closest thing this show has to a conceit is that they're a married couple. It feels like they know they're on the job and have to act in a heightened way. Even though I'm familiar with both their acting work, I don't know why I should care about them in the context of this show.

    If I were director of this show, my notes page would be looooong. I think the biggest change I would make is, focus on the game first. You can keep references to the hosts being a couple but the core fantasy of a game show is the contestants winning money through skill at games, and this show obfuscates that fantasy and distracts from it at every turn.

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    • Release date
      • August 8, 2021 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA(Studio)
    • Production companies
      • A Very Good Production Inc.
      • Telepictures
      • Warner Horizon Unscripted Television
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