You could just kind of see the main character in the movie slowly sliding down the greasy pole from sanity to crazyness, although he didn't seem to start the film very far up this pole. Even though your life may be far from perfect it can't be as far from perfect as this familys life seems to be. The film kind of reminded me of the Simpsons cartoon, and they seemed like the non-cartoon version of that. It was a very enjoyable and funny film, but then it`s allways been easier to laugh at people less fortunate than yourselves. And I`m quite certain that "The Martins" are less fortunate than you. Great fun.
The characters are like what cartoon characters?
The Simpsons