larry crowne movie: insipid & disgusting?

larry crowne looks to be a more vile piece of flotsam than transformers 3.  this is a star-vehicle that tom hanks wrote and directed for himself.  sweet fucking jesus, this guy in real life is at least a billion times more lame that he comes across on screen.  could larry crowne be more than a unrealistic, disgusting, feel-good bullshit exercise?  i don't see how.  the only thing that could make that film worse would be having ron howard as its director.