If you watch one screwball Korean action comedy this year…

Damn. I just can’t pull the trigger on that sort of endorsement for “Husbands in Action,” a dopier-than-dopey kidnapping caper that “TV-MA” rating or not, seems aimed at kids.

It’s that childish.

Wacky sight gags, cartoonish fights, “logic” utterly deleted from the script and physics defied so often Bugs Bunny’s rolling his animated eyes, this one’s um “got it all,” as they say in the trades. But “it all” doesn’t amount to much.

So there’s this young mob kingpin, Du-joon (Kim Ji-suk) who is running all things underworld in Incheon via an AI gadget. The mobster of the future is confronted with the mob world’s past when older, heavier Yong-gang (Yoon Kyong-ho) gets out prison.

Young Blood can’t even bother pronouncing Mob Legend’s name right.

But hotshot detective Choong-sik (Jin Seon-kyu) is wise to, or more than happy to stumble into busting Du-joon before Yong-gang’s crew — which the cop once nicknamed “The Doodie Gang” — can make their move.

Not to worry. Du-joon’s adoring wife Hye Ran (Lee Da-hee) kidnaps the cop’s wife (Kang Han-na) and little girl (Oh Eon-seo). Let’s make a trade!

But the cop’s divorced. Si-nae (Kang) has remarried — to a goofy, younger “extreme sports” fan veterinarian, Min-seok (Gong Myoung). With the brains-behind-the-mob wife demanding her husband’s release, this exchange won’t just involve the cop who must break the law to free his new prisoner. It’ll require the presence of the screaming, mini-van drifting nutjob “Dog Doctor” riding shotgun, or driving.

“It’s always best to work together!” he declares (in Korean with subtitles, or dubbed into English).

The cop has to keep his promise to his little girl that “Justice will always win,” while dragging around this supposed dead weight who claims — and sometimes proves to have — “special skills.”

Writer-director Park Gyu-tae (“6/45” and “Bunt” were his) has a penchant for gonzo, or somethung approximating that in his comedies. This one is “out there” mostly in the sense that there’s no logic and characters spend a lot of time screaming.

Two of the three husbands are trying to get the third one back to his wife to free “their” wife and child. That involves a few throwdowns, and a lot of shouting.

The way the two dads summon up the strength to break out of bindings or smash down a walk-in freezer’s door is screaming at the top of their lungs before every fresh burst of effort.

“Husbands in Action” has Korean puns (the subtitling can’t keep up) and jokes and food references. But it’s not so much Korean as Asian, as the characters, situations and dialogue seems more suited to anime.

Bits about cops assuming their best detective skipping off with their prime suspect is a “genius” could have worked for more laughs.

The female roles — Jeon So-min plays a nosy reporter who stumbles into all this — are thinly scripted and show a lot of wasted potential. Maybe they’re saving that for the sequel.

I like the energy here, even if the pacing doesn’t match the sometimes manic behavior of the characters.

Because no matter how dumb, slackly paced and talky/shouty all of this is, it never really comes off. An almost-amusing chase, a funny (ish) brawl, a laugh here and a yawn there.

And let’s finish this review with a pet peeve. If you don’t speak Korean, Mandarin, Japanese, Vietnamese or what have you or aren’t immersed in the cinema of any of these cultures, figuring out who is playing what can be a puzzle.

If you’re reviewing a film like this, and Korean cinema has joined the Big Boys and Girls when it comes to movie-making, you need help discerning the credits.

The Internet Movie Database, decades ago, set out to order first and last names as they are in the culture that the filmmakers were born into. And as Korean surnames and those in some corners of Asia come first, that’s what they doggedly say they do, no matter what the filmmaker/actor uses as their billing, in the East and West.

IMDB claims they’ve made that a hard and fast “rule.” But it gives them as many fits as it does me. Check out how they bill the director of this film. And then the stars. I must run into this problem 100 times a year. You’d think as they transition to bots doing this “credits” work they’d be right or at least consistent. Nope. They’ve been driving me nuts with this forever.

Kids, nobody needs help making typos or committing cultural faux pas.

Rating: TV-MA, violence and profanity

Cast: Jin Seon-kyu, Gong Myung, Kang Ha-na, Kim Ji-seok, Jeon So-min and Yoon Kyong-ho.

Credits: Scripted and directed by Park Hyu-tae. A Netflix release.

Running time: 1:47