Glenn Ficarra and John Requa’s “Crazy, Stupid, Love,” released on Friday, had the potential to be a witty portrayal of a dysfunctional family. But the talents of the all-star cast members, including Steve Carell, Julianne Moore, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, were wasted on this cliched ­— albeit heartwarming — depiction of a family torn apart by divorce and eventually reunited by love.

It was clear that Ficarra and Requa struggled between creating a family film akin to “Dan in Real Life” (2007), which also featured Carell, or generating a raunchier adult comedy. On one hand, “Crazy, Stupid, Love” includes several touching, family-oriented scenes. In one instance, the son — portrayed by 14-year-old actor Jonah Bobo — delivers an inspirational eighth-grade graduation speech. In another memorable scene, the family’s matriarch, Emily, played by Moore, serves the kids ice cream at the kitchen table. These scenes, however, are offset by unoriginal penis jokes and chronicles of Carell’s and Gosling’s sexual conquests. This odd mix may confuse audience members, and it fails to cater to any specific category of viewers.

At the movie’s outset, the suave and stylish ladies’ man Jacob (Gosling) takes Carrell’s despondent, middle-aged Cal under his wing and urges him to shed his polo shirts and New Balance sneakers for GQ-style suits and shoes. The scene in which Jacob takes Cal to the mall — replete with shots of tie racks, shirt displays and credit card swipes — seems like a common makeover scene a la “The Princess Diaries” (2001). Furthermore, Cal’s grand entrance into the bar as a new man is accompanied by electronica duo Goldfrapp’s “Ooh La La,” highlighting the cheesiness of Cal’s transformation as well as the cinematography.

Of course, shirtless scenes featuring Gosling elicited swoons from female audience members. The slow panning of the camera along Gosling’s bare chest and the gratuitous shot of Gosling seductively eating a slice of pizza reflects a shameless pandering to an audience of teenage girls across the country. His character’s alluring personality quickly fades, though, when he suddenly decides to abandon his caddish ways and falls in love with Hannah.

There were a handful of instances of sarcastic humor in this romantic dramedy — mostly led by Carell — which elicited chuckles from the audience, but many of the movie’s funniest moments were already included in the trailer, reducing their impact. The comedic highlights of the film mainly occurred when directors Ficarra and Requa captured awkward family moments, such as when separated parents Cal and Emily sat uncomfortably together while waiting for a parent-teacher conference.

The trite humor would have been less bothersome had the characters been more interesting. Yet Moore played a typical, remorseful cheating wife, while Carell played a sad, lonely man pathetically pining over his unfaithful spouse — a departure from his style as The Office’s Michael Scott. The adorably awkward aspiring lawyer Hannah, played by Stone, was a charming addition to the film, but she was underdeveloped and ultimately fell flat.

The breakout star of the film was Bobo, an up-and-coming child actor who played the adorably naive eighth grader Robbie. Audience members could not resist the charm of Robbie’s helpless crush and grand gestures of affection for 17-year-old baby sitter Jessica, played by Analeigh Tipto. Later in the film, viewers’ hearts melted when Robbie urges his father not to give up on his soulmate, Emily.

Although Robbie’s role in the film culminates with uplifting family reunions and words of wisdom about love and happiness, viewers are left disturbed by a final scene in which Jessica gives Robbie naked pictures of herself to “get [him] through high school.” Even at the end of “Crazy, Stupid, Love,” heartwarming family scenes and moments of crude humor collide to form a forgettable and uninsightful film.