Adulthood (2025) review

When their mother Judy (Ingunn Omholt) has a stroke and is in the hospital, siblings Noah (Josh Gad) and Megan (Kaya Scodelario) rummage through her house and find the skeleton of a woman in the basement - they toss the remains in a quarry but environmental students from a local university discover them the next day, and then their mom's caretaker Grace (Billie Lourd), who knows about what happened, tries to blackmail the two of them for $10k, so Noah and Megan ask their creepy relative Bodie (Anthony Carrigan) to intervene.  With an exceptionally talented actor like Gad as your lead, one would have hoped this would at least be marginally funny, except it's a downright pitiful attempt at a "black comedy" (with a poor sense of timing) in which characters keep getting killed off (the "sword fight" between Noah and Bodie is embarrassing) and the police are useless.  I couldn't help but wonder if Gad's character, a failed screenwriter struggling to put a script together, is actual writer Michael M.B. Galvin's not-so-secret admission he was making it up as he went along (and regularly using marijuana as a "creative tool").