Away We Go (2009)

Best movie of this year hands down!

Very best movie i ever watch

Best movie ever!

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Away We Go is a fun little independent movie that proves that John Krasinski can do more than The Office and Maya Rudolph can do more than SNL - they both give great performances, as does the supporting cast. Away We Go has a realistic feel, even with the eccentric characters. It's not a perfect movie, but it has heart and I liked that.

I checked out this movie for one reason - the Dave Eggers credit. I don't know anything about Sam Mendes or John Krasinski, or what Maya Rudolph's done since "SNL" if anything. But I enjoy Eggers' writing and overall comic sensibility and expected something of it to translate to the screen. There is comedy here, I guess, but most of it is standard rom-com stuff, and almost all of it has been done before and better. The acting is fine, but the characters, aside from the two leads, are so thin or impossibly quirky that the film has no weight. And the main characters, out to find a home for their family, seem not to have grown up themselves, nor found out much about themselves over the course of the film except that the rest of the world is even more "f*ked up" than they are.Not a very edifying message, particularly when I was expecting much better.

As I know the reasons I disliked this movie are kinda personal, I won't give it stars. Anyways I found the trailer shown on IMDb very misleading. There's another trailer by the way I've seen on a very famous video site that is less misleading. I thought I was going to watch a movie about 2 beep-ups as they call themselves who have a baby against all odds. Actually it's a movie about 2 rather successful businesspeople who are looking for a nice-looking mansion and a free babysitter even though they could afford a payed one. Also they don't seem to have any friends and know lots of stupid people. After meeting the 3rd stupid person I stopped watching. The amount of stupidness was just too much and overdone and annoying and I didn't like seeing any more of it. Some of the things the two main characters said highly upset me, such as saying 'we're beep-ups' (btw and very off-topic it's so funny you can't write a word in a review that is like the first word shown in an IMDb trailer...) while working for I don't know insurance companies or as something like an actual successful-seeming painter, or when they say stuff like 'nobody is in love as much as we are, right?' which is incredibly arrogant to say, like 'nobody in the world is as good as we are, right?' - less words would have been better here, and, well, other stuff, which might explain the having-no-friends-knowing-so-many-stupid-people-thing. If this movie was trying to be pure sarcasm I would have thought this stuff to be okay, but actually the romance music and beautiful picturing combined with these elements truly left me confused. I've heard the movie gets better at some stage. Well I don't think I'll feel tempted to check it out.

When Verona (Maya Rudolph) and Burt (John Krasinski) find out that their conjugal relationship has brought about a pregnancy, they are both joyous and fret with fear about the future. Verona's parents passed away years ago, whilst Burt's have decided to move to Europe for two years, irrespective of them becoming grandparents. This causes the pair of soon-to-be father and mother to seek a new home, somewhere where they would have soul-parents to share their fate. This causes them to travel across the US and Canada, observe various family models and strive to find a place where they would fit best.Sam Mendes, after a tiresome and unconvincing "Revolutionary Road", changes tone and exits out of his comfort zone to deliver a muted comedy with some true appeal, if limited integrity. The opening quarter of an hour actually had me wondering if the concept on offer by Mendes would work, as the humour is most often unobtrusive, instead lingering, slowly building to form a atmosphere of laughter, instead of gag with a punch line. The endearing leads slowly grasp the situation, never allowing themselves to fall into ridicule, but keeping an honest, charming and contemplative feel to their angst of parenthood. This is basically a couple you would love to know, love to have your kids grow up with and despite their oddities one of the most heartfelt pairings in American cinema.That doesn't mean Mendes doesn't have its flaws, as occasionally the concept turns to gimmick for a bit of cheap laughter, especially problematic when he turns his attention to jab at the liberal upbringing methods of LN (Maggie Gyllenhaal) and Hamilton (Josh Hamilton), lacking any sensitivity to couples choosing different family models. This is especially striking given Verona and Burt are hardly your conventional family, still somehow come off are offensively judgemental to models that don't fit their set views - inadvertently making them problematically close-minded, something that obviously wasn't the intention of the director. This lack of integrity does seriously harm the overall message of the movie, leaving "Away We Go" to be enjoyable family comedy with some insightful outlook into the changes brought about by parenthood, but lacking the clarity and conviction to cope with the bigger picture.