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it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Was good, but the ending wasn't what I hope for. Definitely could expand into another movie or add an alternate better ending.

Drinking BuddiesIt may resemble too much to the real world and still offer us enough reason to hang on to it as it is so perfectly written that its tone is surprisingly acceptable.

Drinking Buddies is a movie about what happens when you are in a relationship that is, well, shaky. The main characters, Luke and Kate, both have significant others, but in their jobs in a brewery they are constantly together and will, after hours, engage in heavy drinking and substantial flirting. They seem to have a mutual agreement to keep it innocent, but the problem is that this is nonetheless a form of infidelity--they share a bond that clearly intrudes on their relationships. As the movie progresses, the pair take their significant others to a weekend at a beach house, but end up spending significant quality time with each other. Meanwhile, a certain chemistry emerges between the significant others, Jill and Chris, and the question of who really belongs with whom supplies the dramatic tension for the rest of the movie.Drinking Buddies is an unusual movie on two specific levels. First, it is a romantic comedy, but it does not really follow the formula. Rather, it is interested primarily in the more subtle forms in which relationships sustain themselves, break down, and clunk along again. The plot, such as it is, is not neat and tidy, and the drama is real drama because of it. We end up not looking for the end of this movie--rather we relish the complexities of the individual situations.Also unusual is that Drinking Buddies adopts a cinematic style that complements this quality of ambiguity. The style is what some describe as naturalistic--basically you really feel like you are watching real human beings. The style is achieved because most of the scenes are improvised--rarely do you ever get the sense that someone is reciting a script. Rather, it feels like you are watching the quartet really live their lives, and so the drama never feels like it is following a formula.The result is a movie that is entertaining, but also interesting. Because the rom-com is in this case so true to life, you really are not certain in which direction it is going to go. The tension is very substantial, because Kate feels like a real person who is going through real hurt, and her redemption is largely that she is a real person who can live through the ambiguities. In this sense, the movie is quite profound, because this is what most of us do every day.

Neither one of the leads were likable. The two most likable characters to me were the two side characters. I could tell the movie was mostly improvised and the actors did not feel natural in that environment. There were times when it clicked, but not often. Some of the dialog was good in these moments, but it was never consistent. I remember laughing once during the whole movie and rolling my eyes for most of it. The two cast members, Ron Livingston and Anna Kendrick, were not the main focus of the movie and the only reason I watched it. In general I do not like Jake Johnson and I have no opinion on Olivia Wilde. I guess they both did an OK job, but they were both so annoying in general