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Fresh and Exciting

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

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

Found this movie entertaining and absorbing. Keira Knightley who stands through as an important carer giver and taker; is like an imaginary sister. The picture is a source to understand that 'life is not perfect'; with ups and downs in relationships which are essentially by blood. The father and daughter; Keira and father. The mother and child; Keira and mother are both relationships where meaning can and is derived; watch out for life and death under the visual stimulus. Visual treats are Keira herself with hands by side of a teenager who she meets. The methods to instill justice over the whereabouts of life could be claimed as a plot narrative. In the end an appreciation of circumstances are found or not meant literally by Hollywood; is the Indian appreciation of this movie. Letting nothing go to dumpsters: life consisting of food, shelter and clothing suits us well through the movie screening. Terrific visual movie with suitable buddies.

I thoroughly enjoyed Say When. But then I'm a thirty-something Peter Panette who hasn't grown up, found true love and who's biggest regret is never having made it to a high school prom. Its all about whether you're content with your pretty comfortable lot or whether you yearn for the same unbridled ambition you had as a teen. Sam Rockwell's character is hilarious - you don't want to like him but it's difficult not to like anyone so flawed. Ditto for Kiera Knightley's. It's the kind of movie that gives us millennials/generation x'ers hope that there is a silver lining to all the hard work. Now where can i find my own Craig....

Yet another so-called 'warm and tender' love story written by, and for, trendy young mods who seem to know very little about the subject of "love". Even the title given to this story is as fake as any notions the writer offers on how to make a 'loving-commitment'. "Lacking" may have been a more apt title. In Britain, they changed the title to "Say When" (an equally non-event title).Peppered with schoolyard type vulgar language this movie tries to convince us that a 28yr old young woman who's about to get married to her long time lover - would step out of her friends wedding reception for a little fresh air, tell her fiancé she'll be back in a moment, then picks up with a bunch of teens off the street, buys them booze, get tanked, hangs out with them, and decides she will go home with one of the teenage girls for a sleep over - it's here she gets caught out by the girls 35-40yr old father...If you need any help to guess the rest then this could be the movie for you... Not sure why British Keira Knightley was cast as Meagan the 28yr old American but imagine it has something to do with marketing. Cast wise, Chloe Grace Moretz comes off best as Annika the teenage daughter living with her dad, who is troubled by her mothers walk-out on her family - although this theme could have had promise it's explored somewhat superficially, as with most of the sociological aspects within this at times, trite script. Sam Rockwell as Annika's dad lays on the 'I'm-a-super-cool-sorta-guy' mannerisms to a point of irritation. This style of movie has become so predictably a 'Sundance-indi' type production-that some just may prefer to leave the room.Some of the songs and music by Benjamin Gibbard offer interest, especially his song "It's Never Too Late". Much else points to a case of Arrested Development and while it will appeal to certain teen audiences, makes you wish Hollywood's new league (in this case mostly women) would dedicate just a little more time to growing up.

Lynn Shelton's Laggies, given her casting choices and the distributional/marketing approaches taken for the film, is her most mainstream effort yet. When Shelton began writing and directing, she serviced the mumblecore niche that wound up helping the careers of actors like Mark Duplass, but rarely did she indulge in any of the praise for her work when it was clear that she possessed something that made her films successful. Shelton's not only one of the few female directors on the rise in American cinema, but one of the few making very naturalistic dramas that frequently show characters wading in the water when it comes to their life decisions and, in turn, making regrettable decisions.Laggies focuses on Keira Knightley's Megan, an aimless twenty-eight-year-old, who went to college, but enjoys her pampered lifestyle of being a sign-holder for her father's (Jeff Garlin) tax firm. The tipping point for Megan recognizing her own aimlessness and disorganized life is when her boyfriend Anthony (Mark Webber) proposes marriage in state of fantasy rather than reality at one of her friends' weddings. On top of that, Megan catches her father cheating on her mother outside of the wedding. Following all this, Megan winds up fleeing and running into a teen girl named Annika (Chloë Grace Moretz) who, along with a group of her friends, are trying to score alcohol outside of a supermarket.It is right here where Megan admires their simplistic desires, caves, and purchases some beer and wine coolers for them. Megan is at a crossroads with her life, where she can't make any decision without disappointing or hurting somebody else. The fact that she can do this small favor and see all parties before her satisfied, combined with the youthful desire to obtain the forbidden fruit, resonates with her to the point where she agrees to ditch her friend's wedding to hang out with the teenagers. Here, she learns of their problems, their romantic difficulties, and so forth, and she's reminded of her days with her friends, smoking Djarum Blacks and just in search of a good time and nothing more.Megan begins spending the most time with Annika, even growing close to her father (Sam Rockwell) upon revealing the real reason why she's staying at his home (she doesn't want to go home and wants time away from her own family). This allows for both parties to be satisfied, as Annika doesn't have any close friends and needs an older, wiser guardian for whom to receive advice and Annika's father is starved for company.Laggies is the kind of film that, with a lesser script that went for the ribald side of Annika and Megan's time together instead of the more tender sequences, could've easily been a film much fluffier than it already is. The story is notably more plotted than Shelton's other works like Your Sister's Sister, and moves closer and closer to the mainstream whilst retaining that mumblecoric charm that's been instilled in her work since the beginning. Laggies only really makes a grave mistake when it starts ending up more like a romantic comedy than a film about the struggle to find and stick with an identity for oneself, and that gray area makes Shelton's film, as a whole, a bit rocky.However, few films are willing to tackle these kind of complex emotions especially with the layeredness that Shelton has provided. We learn a lot from watching Knightley's very vivid and natural body language, especially in her facial expressions, and a lot that goes unsaid in this film can be easily revealed and discussed. The entire project, even with its more plotted elements and specific structure, feels natural and a winning step up from Shelton's mediocre Touchy Feely. In a world of sloppy romantic comedies and even more incredulous ones, I can't think of a reason not to see Laggies.Starring: Kiera Knightley, Chloë Grace Moretz, Sam Rockwell, Jeff Garlin, and Mark Webber. Directed by: Lynn Shelton.