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Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

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.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

I wanted to turn this off, but considering it was 10pm on a Sunday night and I had work tomorrow, I decided I was too deep to look for another movie and chose to tough it out. My main gripe, none of these characters are likable. In fact, most of them I found myself hating. Chris Pine is a wannabe hotshot selfish asshole douche and it's hard to invest any interest in him. The kid is a smart mouthed little shit, who if he was my kid, would NEVER talk to me the way he does to strangers and especially his own mother. The plot is not that complex yet it drags on and on, you just want it to be over already. I'm honestly shocked at how many people gave this film a good score and actually wrote glowing reviews about it. Maybe I don't get it, but I guess I'm glad about that.

Don't expect something spectacular here, but, what you do get is a well executed portrayal of a certain group of people and their life choices and consequences that said choices brought. But, not only that, it also shows how one can deal with such things. Like when the son says to his mother "I will never agree with you, but I love you".The casting is very well done. None of these actors are great actors, but they are good actors and are very well cast, so this works out great.Though at times it seems the story revolves (too much) around the recently departed father of the main character, it actually does put him in the right place. In the lives of all involved, he was a big presence. The fact that maybe he was a too big of a presence is also saying something about the characters themselves.I watched this movie with my teenage niece and she liked it, so, I guess that it's also not as "adult" as it would seem at first.

There are so many ways of lying, of being fake... For example, pretending you are being modest when in fact you are not; or pretending you are being honest, when in fact you are not. The movie People Like Us teaches us that, when it comes to tell a story, you can be immodest and dishonest both at the same time. Although the subject matter promises us an interesting movie (the "Hey! By the way, you have a step brother" issue), we are treated rather to a "Do as I say!" indoctrination-type film, interspersed with your typical everyday clichés, lack of talent, lack of substance and beautiful people. For, although the author could've chosen not to force on us his particular view of how is it that we are to behave and feel about these delicate, and rather personal family matters, but simply make a movie about the viability of it, he nonetheless takes himself the liberty of doing the former.Apparently, you only start being a "true" human being when you stop being mad at your husband for having babies all over the place, and simply tell your little son about this potentially very painful fact (-- the father will lose its respect in the eyes of the boy, but at least he will become a "true" human being when he grows up: yea!--). Although having babies with other women while being married doesn't seem like the kind of thing to encourage, our author teaches us that it's OK: as long as daddy doesn't forget to take his diverse little offspring to the local park in order to film them with his old camcorder from the 80's, while they run around and bump with each other unaware, there seems to be no major issue with it.On the other hand, and as with many other adolescent, immature movies, everything gets centered around the main characters' overabundance of feeling. It's all about showing this overflow of emotions and inner struggles that more than being of service, nauseates with its over- sentimental, corny, gooey bad taste.All in all, I'm giving this movie 5 stars (not zero), for its production in general and quality actors are, nonetheless, worth mentioning.

Sam (Chris Pine) is long estranged from his record producer deceased father. He is left with a shaving kit bag. In it he finds $150k and a note telling him to take care of Josh Davis. Josh is a smart-mouthed little boy who constantly gets into trouble and his single mother Frankie (Elizabeth Banks) has to deal with the results. She's in AA and Sam's secret half sister. He's conflicted and wants to keep the money. He has a fight with his girlfriend Hannah (Olivia Wilde) and he can't stand his mother Lillian (Michelle Pfeiffer).The kid is not adorable. He's a bitter smart aleck little brat. That takes most of the fun out of it. Then again neither is Sam a likable guy. It's hard to watch these unlikeable characters sometimes. It makes the jokes not as funny. At least, Elizabeth Banks is as charming as ever. But the movie is way too long and long sections of it dragged. There is the totally awkward relationship, but there is also a pretty good family dysfunction. It's very much a mix bag.