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Away We Go
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| Part No: | B0021L8UOY |
| Manufacturer: | Focus Features |
| MFG Part: | 025195050135 |
| Customer Rating: | 4.0 / 5.0 |
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A couple expecting their first child travel across the country to visit friends and relatives in search of the perfect home for their family.
Away We Go has an incredible mix of ingredients: A script co-written by Dave Eggers (author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius), directed by Sam Mendes ( American Beauty, Revolutionary Road), starring the not-hugely-famous-but-always-excellent Maya Rudolph ( Saturday Night Live) and John Krasinski ( The Office), and featuring an astounding supporting cast that includes Catherine O’Hara, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeff Daniels, Allison Janney, Jim Gaffigan, and more. What’s even more incredible is that all these ingredients blend together into a truly marvelous but very non-traditional romantic comedy. For one thing, Burt (Krasinski) and Verona (Rudolph) are already a couple and expecting their first child. What they don’t know is where they’re going to live--so they set off on a tour of disparate locations (Tucson, Montreal, Miami) where they have friends or relatives, sampling not only different cities and climates but also different families. The social and emotional collisions that follow are sometimes very funny and sometimes heartwrenching. Away We Go starts quietly and, through subtle yet consistently delightful scenes, builds to a surprisingly potent end. This is a gem of a movie, not to be missed. --Bret Fetzer
| 2 Reviews/1 Movie | 2010-09-06 | 3 / 5 |
| The Social Review:
I first must disclose that I have a bit of a crush on Maya Rudolph. I think it's primarily because she's funny. I tend to like funny women, so that may taint this review.
Anyway, one of the things that really irked me about this movie was the fact that conveniently her parents are both dead. I say conveniently because we've seen this same song & dance with another biracial actress recently, Rashida Jones. They killed her parents off in I Love You, Man, which is kind of a big deal in a movie about a wedding. Hell, the bride's father typically pays for the wedding, right? The Root, briefly touched on this whitewashing in their article, Rashida Jones & The Hollywood Shuffle.
I feel race shouldn't be the issue in movies, but it should exist. They conveniently killed off her family for the sake of the movie. Both Rashida & Maya's race were the giant elephant in the room to me. At least in Away We Go, they did have a character ask if the baby would be Black in passing. Also, they gave Maya's character a sister in the form of Carmen Ejogo, but she was in and out of the movie in a blink. Plus, her skin seemed to be lighter than I had ever seen it and the character was supposed to be living in Arizona.
I guess I was just hoping for a slightly more diverse cast since one of the leads happened to be biracial. Black actors need some love, too. lol
The Entertainment Review:
It was weird watching the trailers & seeing the movie posters leading up to actually watching the film. Going into it, I really wasn't sure if this thing was a comedy or drama. I know the two leads are known for comedy, but the trailers left me with the impression that the movie was a drama with funny moments. It turned out to be a pretty straightforward comedy.
I saw it as a more realistic and funny Dumb & Dumber. I compare it to that movie because both of the lead characters seemed pretty vapid to me. I know the characters of Dumb & Dumber were full of life, but they were empty headed. These two leads seemed just as empty headed. Why are they living in an shack without heat? Why are they so concerned that his parents are going on a vacation? The soon to be grandparents weren't the sharpest pencils in the box, themselves. A couple in their early to mid-thirties that's expecting their first child decides to live like this? If they have the money to zig-zag across the country, why didn't they use this money for a decent place to live? Why does Maya not want to marry John, but feel he's good enough to be the father to her child? I wanted to shake the hell out of both Maya & John's characters at times.
The road trip that you witness throughout the rest of the movie is pretty funny, but the first couple they visit kind of steals the film. I never laughed harder than when Allison Janney & Jim Gaffigan's characters were on screen. Think Al & Peg Bundy uncensored with Peg on speed & Al drunk.
Overall it was a very entertaining movie, with a pretty dumb ending. When you see the ending the first thing you will say to yourself is probably, "Why didn't they do that in the first place?" |
| In Love with This Movie | 2010-08-21 | 5 / 5 |
| | I love everything about this film. The cast, especially John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph, are perfect. There are scenes that make you laugh out loud and moments that make you sigh and reach for a hankie. Loved seeing all the settings as this couple, expecting their first child, roamed the country looking for the perfect place to call home, dropping in on family and friends, some of them real weirdos. I've watched this film three times and could watch it every day and come away feeling as if I'd seen it for the first time. If you like wonderful endings, you will be satisfied with how the film plays out. |
| A Different Kind of Road Film | 2010-08-15 | 4 / 5 |
| | AWAY WE GO is an entertaining, funny film that offers some very fine actors little vignettes of character studies that makes this otherwise rather predictable story well worth the viewing. Starting at the top, the film was deftly written by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida and directed by the pro, Sam Mendes. The story is rather simple: a young pregnant but not married couple Burt (John Krasinski) and Verona (Maya Rudolph) live in Chicago, too near parents (Catherine O'Hara and Jeff Daniels) and under the influence of Verona's wildly mad boss (Allison Janney), so when the idea of finding a place to raise a perfect family arises they are off and running to Montreal (where they visit the very bizarre couple Maggie Gyllenhaal and Josh Hamilton, steeped in the far out reaches of 'being natural' in everything), progressing on to Miami where they encounter the apparently happy family (but painfully bruised parents Chris Messina and Melanie Lynskey), and on to Tucson - searching for just the right place to be a family. The hilarity of the situations they encounter is balanced by the realities of relationship building, making for a fine balance of a story that could have been just another silly adventure. It has some very strong acting and deals with current topics in a way that few films take the opportunity to address, and that alone is another reason to spend an evening with the Farlander's search for perfection! Grady Harp, August 10 |
| for young lovers and those who remember | 2010-07-27 | 5 / 5 |
| This is a wonderful portrayal of the sort of love and togetherness that really matter: One stripped of all customary sentiment and romantic trimmings. It is also refreshingly and humorously without any shame or pretense.
It's about a love that is one feels and cannot and should not put into words. An experience that is so often fleeting, but will most certainly be remembered.
It is also extremely well cast without pandering to commercialism and sensitively directed by someone who really understood the book.
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| Burt and Verona discovering themselves | 2010-07-25 | 4 / 5 |
| This was an entertaining movie about a young couple, in their 30's who find they are expecting a baby and set out to find a place to live and begin their family. The acting was superb, with John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph playing the lead roles. Allison Janney played the part of a ditsy friend down in Phoenix that was absolutely hilarious, a far cry from her sophisticated, in-control persona on The West Wing. Another friend in Madison played by Maggie Gyllenhaal as a spacey, new-age mom also had us laughing. The movie was one of their self discovery and getting a taste of what life might be like in a variety of different places in the U.S. and Canada.
I thought their self doubts and questioning of their lives and values was a good contrast to the many funny scenes in the movie. I also liked the wardrobe for the characters. I really had to laugh at some of the mismatched outfits Burt showed up in, kind of like you'd expect a lot of guys to dress if they didn't have a lot of input from women, and Verona didn't seem like the type to be particularly concerned about wardrobe.
This was what I call a "slice of life" type of movie in that it explores a lot of situations and has a lot of entertaining moments but doesn't end up with a big finale or resolution. It wasn't one of my favorite movies or anything but was very entertaining. |
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