GENRE: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
RATING:
G for some mild language
RUNTIME: 1 hour and 54 minutes
RUNTIME: 1 hour and 54 minutes
STARRING:
Ben Stiller (Tower Heist, Meet the Parents)
Kristen
Wiig (Bridesmaids), Adam Scott (Step Brothers)
DIRECTOR:
Ben Stiller (Zoolander, Tropic Thunder)
WRITER:
Steve Conrad (The Pursuit of Happyness)
PLOT:
A day dreamer needs to go on an actual adventure to track down an elusive
photographer and missing negative.
FIVE OBSERVATIONS:
1
I’m a day dreamer so I could relate to the imaginative adventures of Walter Mitty
in this film. I love how it mixed the absurd with the truly adventurous. Especially
at the start of a new year, I found this film to be uplifting in the premise of
trying new things and living life.
2
Some
beautiful visuals in this film. Iceland looks like a great place to visit. So
does Greenland with its eight people (Iceland subbed in for Greenland though).
3
Patton Oswald (Parks &
Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine) makes everything that much better. All you
need is a cameo to brighten a script.
4
I thought the missing photo would turn out to be a McGuffin but I really
did enjoy the pay off at the end.
5
There were a couple of camera pans in the office and on the final mountain that
made me dizzy. Sure, I suffer from vertigo, but this seemed completely unnecessary.
Other than that, this film had some
impressive cinematography.
RECOMMENDATION: Fun in the theatres for the visuals
UPCOMING REVIEWS: The Best of 2013
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