The councilman eventually finds out about this casino, takes the money for himself and tells them to shut the casino down. I already mentioned that Scott and Kate start enjoying this. They do about as good a job as they can with the material they are given but, really, that material isn't much to begin with. I like Amy Poehler, Will Ferrell and Jason Mantzoukas as leads. If it doesn't great, it's because it isn't.
Kate becomes The Burner, because she threatens people with blowtorches. Scott, who's a lame dad, becomes The Butcher after he accidentally chops someone's finger off and, later, that person's boss' hand (this guy is a real mob boss). Regardless,Scott and Kate eventually become sort of 'mob' bosses. Walter's journey from loving father doing what he does to take care of his family after he's gone to drug kingpin, doing absolutely what is necessary in order to keep his business and family from collapsin (and he does some pretty heinous things) is just wonderful. Seriously, though, Breaking Bad is just amazing storytelling from beginning to end. And you know what they say, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Eventually becoming a meth kingpin gave him the kind of control in his life that he never felt he had. Same thing with Walter White in Breaking Bad. It's adding that spark that was needed in their lives. But, as they get deeper into things and start making more money than they need, they start to get a sense of enjoyment out of it.
This movie follows the same Breaking Bad narrative path, in that Scott and Kate begin to do this out of necessity more than anything. Anyway, the point is that this movie sees Scott and Kate start an illegal casino with their friend (whose wife has left him and who's had his house foreclosed on by the bank) in order to make enough money to afford their daughter's college since the scholarship she was to get was ixnayed by the (crooked) city councilman (probably a republican). I have the Blu-Ray boxset, so I didn't have to wait for seasons. I suppose it's something you don't notice when you're waiting over a year in between seasons.
Seriously, one of the genuine surprises I had from the second time I watched Breaking Bad in its entirety is how funny the series actually was.
Regardless, let's move on, shall we? This movie is the comedic version of Breaking Bad, except not nearly as fantastic and not even close to being half as funny. Particularly if it's money your family needs more for whatever they may need, but I understand the need to reach that high again. Not saying it's justified spending all this money on a game of chance where, really, all the odds are set against you. Gambling addiction is a serious problem, but, if people win big, they get hooked on that high. So even then, it's the sort of thing that I do if I'm already there, not something that I would actively seek out. Not cause of any conscious choice, it's just that it hasn't come up and it's not like I'm chomping at the bit to return. Since then, and this would have had to have been over six years ago now, I've not gone to a casino. It was, of course, low-stakes since, again, I don't have the kind of money to waste away on the more high-end games, but there was something about it where I thought that if I kept at this, and I kept winning at the slot machines, that this could become a problem for me in the future. I literally only played the slot machines, here's the grandma in me apparently. There were also a few times when I went to a hotel for New Year's that I ended up going to a casino that's within walking distance. One of them was after prom with some friends, but we didn't really do anything. The reason I say this is that I've been to a few casinos in my life, very few, like less than ten times. I don't think I'd do sports gambling or anything of the sort. Having said all of that, if I'm being completely honest, I do think that if I had enough money to waste and I was more outgoing, I think that the one vice I might consider indulging in would be gambling.
Maybe online pornography, but let's not pretend that that's a thing in my life.