Hope for Male-Based Comedy Genre Flicks Rests on Kevin James

Will human beings attend movies about inept, slovenly men seeking hot chicks? Hollywood is banking on this breakthrough genre — but only if Kevin James can get the box office this summer for The Zookeeper, which opens July 8th. This movie aims big! It’s an audacious attempt, but does the film also aim too low, painting men as buffoons, with big broad physical comedy and people getting hit in the nuts a lot? Executives in Hollywood were also quietly asking if Kevin James can manage a hit movie career while raising three children.