SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Tacticalin An absolute waste of money

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Mabel Munoz Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

cathflet Two people with no chemistry and no appeal pretend to be the best imperfect normal couple and bore us all to death with their utterly contrived road trip to find the best imperfect home to raise their unborn child. Along the way they meet other parents that are mostly unbelievably flawed so that best imperfect couple can feel sensibly smug and constantly reaffirm their Gwyneth and Chris commitment. To my mind, this is Middle England's hideous 'aren't we nice' banality and passive aggressive self congratulation brought to the USA alongside a soundtrack that sounds like it's chosen by an old man trying to be an unironic hipster. There is no story, just a thin weave of pointless anecdotes. There's absolutely no reason to watch this and it's in danger of making one stay celibate and childless rather than have a life so dull. The most uninteresting, nay painfully tedious film I've ever seen. Lord save us good movie fans from such arrogant mistakes.

SnoopyStyle Burt Farlander (John Krasinski) and Verona De Tessant (Maya Rudolph) are expecting their first child. They thought they would be living in the same state as Burt's parents Jerry (Jeff Daniels) and Gloria (Catherine O'Hara). However they tell them that they are moving away. They feel untethered and decide to travel around visiting family and friends to see if they should move to be closer to some other people.The most important thing in a movie like this is overwhelming chemistry between the leads. They are perfectly nice actors doing perfectly nice characters. I never got a great sense of heat from them. Krasinski is doing a lot of joking around. Maya Rudolph returns the sarcastic joking. They just need a few more nice moments of coupledom to set off the chemistry. Verona's pregnancy may have stunted some of the development.The various people deliver their own jarring performances. It's quirky for one stop, then sentimental in another, and then quite sad. I never felt a sense of realism as it all feels fake. It feels like the writer is jerking us around with every stop. Then the last visit really stops the movie cold.

LapinKulta Burt and Verona, a couple in their mid thirties, are looking for a city where Verona would give birth to their child and they would start to make a living. Does it make any sense? No! Anyhow, Burt and Verona seem to believe that the perfect city is defined by the presence of their family members and friends, because that would make perfect condition for their child to grow. Does that make sense? Definitely not! Burt is jobless, but he does not seem to care if there is a job for him in the cities they are considering. Rather, they care how well they get along with their friends. How much sense does this make? Very little. And, it always takes them one evening out to realize they do not get with their friends well enough to settle there. How much sense does it make? Are cities like Phoenix, Tucson, Montreal and Miami (which they visit) really too small for two families? Maybe the movie is supposed to be a comedy, so one should not look for a logical plot, but the movie fails on other accounts as well. Besides the absurdity of the plot, acting is rather bad. Particularly that of Maya Rudolph. She reads her lines without any emotions, without any change of tonality of her voice. Her bad acting is followed closely by John Krasinski who keeps one single expression throughout the movie, hidden behind thick glasses and beard. On top of bad acting, the two make a very awkward couple. She is seven years older than him in real life, but looks like his mother in the movie. The age difference was emphasized even more by his childish dressing style. He dresses like a high-school kid, for a reason which remains obscured.I stopped watching the movie when Burt was making phone calls in the hope to find his brother´s wife – while jumping on a trampoline!!! How could Sand Mendes, the maker of "American Beauty" (one of my favorite movies), make this disaster is beyond me.The movie deserves one star because the music was not done by Thomas Newman. At least Newman´s talent was not wasted on this awfulness.

Casey Dillard This movie was not what I expected at all. Maybe the fact that I went in with low expectations made it better for me. It was a quiet movie, slow moving and such a small piece of the characters' lives that at first I wasn't sure what story they were trying to tell, but it doesn't, nor should it, end with a baby being born, it ends with them coming a little bit closer to understanding where their place in the world is and what they want for themselves and their children.The acting was fantastic from the two leads. Krasinski thankfully surprised me with being able to be something besides a variation of the Jim character and I look forward to seeing what else he is capable of. Maya Rudolph was a revelation. I've seen her effortlessly slip into "big" characters in all her years on SNL, but to see her play someone so subtle, breakable but resilient was fantastic. Their scene together on the trampoline remains to be one of the most poignant that I've seen in years.The journey with them is worth taking. Give it a shot!