IMDB Plot Synopsis: Again with IMDB not having a plot synopsis. What is this? Ugh. The keywords are equally vivid: Comedy | Romance.
- I haven’t actually seen that many Woody Allen movies but I’m about 86% sure that this one is the bastard lovechild of all his other New York stories. I don’t mean that as a negative thing, just as an acknowledgement of the familiarity this movie invokes.
- Maybe it’s because I saw Year One last night or maybe it’s because I haven’t seen anything lately with relatively intelligent, rapid fire jokes dripping in sarcasm, but I thought this movie was pretty hysterical. It apparently isn’t doing terribly well with the critics but if you ask me, if the critics spent a little more time with Year One, they’d appreciate this movie about a hundred times more. Larry David is Boris, a cantankerous old misanthrope with a penchant for long winded and relatively irrational rants that are sometimes tiresome, sometimes unnecessary, but usually pretty funny. Give me that over Michael Cera peeing on his own face any day.
- I can’t decide if it’s depressing or not that I identify with Boris more strongly than any other character I’ve seen on screen recently. I, too, think I’m much smarter than I probably am in actuality (although at least I have enough self-awareness to recognize that).
- I like exposed brick walls in apartments.
- Henry Cavill, a.k.a. Charles Brandon on The Tudors, played the comely young British actor that Melody inevitably falls for. He is very handsome, but I think I prefer him with puffed sleeves and tights.
- I love comments on the IMDB forums, I really do.
I’m almost 63 and no young woman in Hollywood would fall for me. Unless she’s mentally ill, of course. Because I work in law enforcement I make enough money to get by but that’s it.
“Young model falls for septuagenarian plumber” is totally a movie I want to see now.
Just once in my life I’d love to see some beautiful young actress or model fall for a plumber or truck driver who’s older than her father. Nope. It’s always a top actor, director, or producer. - I think I’m too cynical for this movie (ha!) because even though Boris’ main message in life is that you should take what little joy you can out of the things you experience because god knows everything on this planet sucks on some level (that is, to just go with “whatever works”), I still thought that the abnormally happy ending that the movie closed with was sappy. Clearly his message is lost on me. I am callous.
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