New Review: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

 When "Seeking a Friend for the End of the World" came out in June I was really excited to see it, but I was rather short on funds and time, running around doing cool birthday things. Well I finally saw it over the weekend and I have been itching to talk about it since.

In the film Steve Carrell 'Dodge' and Keira Knightley 'Penny' join forces as the world lurches to its doom upon hearing the news that a 70 mile wide comet is about to destroy all life on the planet. While the exploration of humanity facing its mortality is hilarious at times that is totally not what the movie is about and is entirely mis-marketed as a source of cheap apocalypse jokes. Instead it focuses on the friendship and eventual love that penny and dodge grow together and is all the better for it.



Overall: the apocalypse jokes here are really good but they are comic relief in a movie that is about the finding of love in a dieing world. The performances are top notch, unfortunately they are played to a realistic deadpan as the 2 characters slowly pull each other out of their end of the world despair. The result however is a terrific ending that displays the changes made throughout the journey. 

Bottomline: 5 WATCH IT NOW!!! it is touching and funny and you heart will thank me for making it smile.

Are you really going to let them beat you to this movie?

New Review: Bachelorette

I saw Kirsten Dunst on Leno a few weeks ago and heard her talking about this new comedy she was in called "Bachelorette". So I figured what the heck I like Kirsten Dunst and I have not seen her in a comedy since "Drop Dead Gorgeous."

Here Dunst is joined by Lizzy Caplan, and Isla Fisher as the group of old high school friends called in to fill out the wedding party as Rebel Wilson prepares for the upcoming nuptuals. Facing the understandable frustration of getting beat to the altar, the 3 friends gather the night before the wedding for one more big party. The women then proceed to race through the night dealing with more  consequences than the dad who tried to give the mouse a cookie.


Overall: While Bachelorette continually stumbles into some of the most blatant, cringe inducing scenes we have all seen in comedies before, the pieces do eventually fall into a heartfelt conclusion.

Bottomline 2.5 skip it unless you are desperate for something funny.