I Give It a Year (2013)

Admirable film.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

I gues I like to torture myself with bad movies these days. The opening with the best man's speech should be the biggest clue for what was awaiting me, but I still had hope (whyyyyyyy?). I really like stupid humor, dark humor, cheap sex jokes and I can tolerate a lot in movies. But this is just awkward humor without the humor in it. So it is just awkward over the top situations. If you're doing awkward humor, you should be realistic and subtle (or over the top with a good sense of how to do it, see "The Office"). The movie is, same as the best man, trying too hard to be likeable and funny. And fails miserably. Also, the depiction of "happy" and "unhappy" married couples seems to come from a 15 year old. Not emptying the trash can and the toilet seat problem seem like cheap cliches from a golden book of rom-com cliches. And the couple, that loves each other through hate shoud represent what? Hopelessness for all marriages? Real life? Hope for all disfunctional couples? Why do I even bother to know?! This movie is poorly written with ridiculous scenes (in a bad way), no message, nothing worth remembering about it (except as a bad examble) and I recommend it to people who hate rom-coms to have one more reason to hate them even more.

This film is inappropriate, politically incorrect and at times even offensive; but, occasionally it is uproariously funny, to the point of tears (for me at least).For some unknown reason I am a fan of Ana Faris - maybe it's her total American cuteness which catches this bloke from across the pond; I'm not sure, but I do like her in movies.I wouldn't recommend this movie to those of a sensitive nature; and it certainly isn't one I would take my mother or grandmother to; but is probably more in the age group of my son and nephews; the 20 to 35 year old demographic would probably find it apropos to the current times and funny.Contrary to what I have read in other reviews; I would recommend concentration as there is the odd nod to the leslie Nielson movies such as Airport and the Naked Gun series where things happen in the background separate to the main story; admittedly though they are not that frequent.

Some rom-coms can be too formulaic. Not I Give It a Year. Sometimes the lead man is funnier than the lead woman, or vice-versa. This film is chock-full of laughs, mainly stemming from Rafe Spall's stay-at-home, laid back, but often lazy book-writer. Less so for his newly-wed, Rose Byrne, who's an uptight office worker. They clearly don't match, and they obviously have feelings for other people. The gags make IGIAY more than enjoyable, as they're outrageous and often embarrassing. Hats off to the foul- mouthed Minnie Driver who's Bryne's sister, and Stephen Merchant, Rafe Spall's misogynistic best friend. The American love-interest Anna Faris and Simon Baker fair less well, but happen to be involved in two of three best scenes of the film.

What an awful film. It was crude and rude and totally unfunny. What on earth possessed Rafe Spall and Simon Baker to do this film. The story was puerile, Minnie Driver's character was obnoxious to her husband for no particular reason. The family scenes with the digital photos and Charades were embarrassing and the strange dialogue that Rafe was mumbling in the underwear shop was plain ridiculous, what is more the scene where he goes in the cubicle with the friend and starts whittering about venereal diseases when he is attracted to her was the most stupid rubbish I have heard. The writer should be ashamed of himself. Anyone signing up to this film must have been desperate for money.