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Sadly Over-hyped

Great Film overall

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

I wanted to watch this movie because I am a big fan of Grace Van Patten. This young actress has a lot of potential. Unfortunately, the movie goes further in the Hollywood style and must undress every young actress at the beginning of their career. This is not art, this is call perverted view. Do you really need to show naked people in order to express your ideas? This is the way you teach the young generation how to look at life and how to express? It is a disgrace. I am terribly disappointed that Grace Van Patten accepted to play this role. Probably she had no other choice as many other actresses, but it is disappointing. Regarding the story, I am not convinced by their performance and is a big disappointment especially Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thomson who made such great couple in "Last chance Harvey". I was expecting much more from such first class actors. The other two (Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller) are not between my favourites and they did not excel in their roles. I am still waiting for a good movie...

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." - Leo TolstoyNoah Baumbach is the master of exploring family dysfunction. In this latest work he examines the plights of the Meyerowitz family, a dysfunctional group of people who live in the shadow of their dysfunctional patriarch. Art is their religion and it dictates their pressures, passions, and self-worth. This movie feels like a realist version of The Royal Tenenbaums, and it should be an easy sell for any fan of Wes Anderson movies.Baumbach's carefully crafted script is able to look at heavy and relatable relationship dynamics with an unwavering air of comedy, sincerity, and optimism. The original songs, Randy Newman score, creative structure, humorous editing, and rhythmic dialogue creates an exciting pace throughout. Baumbach harnesses some career best performances (or pretty damn close) in the year's best cast (Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler, Elizabeth Marvel, Dustin Hoffman, and Grace Van Patten).

I found it mostly boring. It wasn't particularly funny or dramatic. It also had odd chapter stops. I also don't understand why it cut to a chapter when someone was screaming usually. Very abrupt edits.

Without a doubt the most tedious, pretentious, mind-numbingly boring movie I've ever seen. I can't stress this enough, everything about it is awful. It almost seems like the writer went out of his way to bore the viewers to death. There are no interesting characters, from the neglectful and useless artist played by Dustin Hoffman, to the bizarre and cringey pornographic filmmaker played by that girl that looks like another popular actress. Oh and that spinster was a stupid character too. Worst movie I have ever seen.