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Away We Go
There’s No Place Like Finding Home
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Less than half a year after Sam Mendes delivered his glum suburban family falls apart near-miss masterpiece that was Revolutionary Road, Mr Winslet is already back in theaters, dropping a sorta anti-Rev Road, where a family is falling together. The Kate/Leo combo guaranteed a surefire fire, but the pairing of soon to be parents John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph doesn’t provide as much of a spark, even if they both hand in solid individual performances. Rudolph in particular shines brighter, and that’s mainly due to the fact that we’ve rarely seen her do anything else but be silly on SNL. Krasinski Halpert isn’t eggzactly the king of range (the beard doesn’t hide a thing), but he’s the perfect everyman, which most guys my age can easily project themselves onto. Plus it’s hard for us to see him make smiley faces with someone else other than Pammy. It’s hactually hard for us to see anyone make smilies with Pammy other than ourselves. Anywho, the two pregger mcgees are looking for a place to call home, so… AWAY WE GO!!!

And go they do, meeting with friends and family across the country (and Montreal), which not only helps them to finger out where to hang their hat, but also finger out what kind of parents they want to be, and most importantly, what kind of parents they don’t want to be. Bad examples are everywhere, from Jim’s soon to be Belgium bound selfish parents (cute, but a tad too quirky Catherine O’Hara and Jeff Daniels), to old workmates with no tact (a bit overdone Allison Janney and the always fun Jim Gaffigan), to a childhood friend that redefines nutty granola (Franken Berry’s alter ego Maggie Gyllenhaal and Josh Hamilton), and college pals with a rainbow family that isn’t exactly all rainbows (Chris Messina and Melanie Lynskey… who was Winslet’s co-star in Peter Jackson’s heavenly Heavenly Creatures). Written by the hubby & wife literary darlings team of Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, the whole road trip feels more like a collection of short stories than a complete movie. Yet in the end, after our hopeful couple leaves everyone behind, hangs up their hat, and their new life is about to begin, it feels complete. It’s minor Mendes, but not everything he does has to be Revolutionary

Wright On: we totally heart Jeffrey Wright’s real life wifey Carmen Ejogo, who plays Maya’s sistah in Go

many mo snaps hear

Verdictgo: Jeepers Worth A Peepers

Away We Go is currently playing in NY/LA only and will expand to other away places this Friday

and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…