BY MIKEY MIGO
I finally get to talk about this movie. I wanted to see it the second I heard about it. David Wain and Ken Marino are consistently two of the funniest guys in the universe. I love the “Wet Hot American Summer” and “The State” crew. Their brand of humor is just the right level of sophisticated silly for my liking. The casting was solid too. Paul Rudd is always a delight. As a founding member of the “Midwest Ruddy-Buddy Fan Club”, I tend to enjoy his movies. I like Jennifer Anniston too. She can be great in great movies, but I’ve seen her in some really lame things too. She a natural comedic actress and is better the more raunchy the script is. The rest of the cast is Alan Alda, Justin Theroux, Malin Akerman, Lauren Ambrose, Joe Lo Trugilo, Kathryn Hayn, Jordan Peele, Kerri Kenney-Silver, and a few others. They put together a GREAT cast here. I can honestly say I really dug this movie. Wikipedia says it’s a “bomb” because it didn’t make all of its money back, but this is a movie that’ll catch on in time. It’s too funny not to. The plot is interesting. Rudd and Anniston are a couple trying to get their shit together. He works his ass off in a dead end job and she is more a professional hobbyist than a worker. Shit falls apart and they end up at a hippie commune with a wide variety of personalities. They have to deal with their shit before they can really move on. Justin Theroux plays the biggest hippie douche bag of all time. I think I only hetro-swooned over him twice. Like any normal guy the idea of a monotonous relationship suddenly becoming “open” is just really uncomfortable and cheap. I think that’s the off-putting part of the movie. I consider myself liberal, but this area of thinking is just too far and selfish. I don’t want to spoil the movie, but the movie goes a weird twist. At that point I lost any care for that character. I didn’t want them to get back together at the end. I wanted one of them to move on and do better for themselves and I wanted the other not to show back up. This was a comedy though. I did laugh a lot. There were some big payoffs that led to some big laughs. Still, that uncomfortable vibe was hard to shake. I’m sure this is all because of some deep rooted issue of my own, but I wanted to laugh and enjoy the movie. It’s not even a “this movie was deep and artistic so it made me FEEL, man” or “it jarred some issues within” thing. It was just creepy and sad. I did like this movie, but I’m not exactly excited to see it again anytime soon. It’s worth a watch, but check your own moral code at the door… B-
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