Couldn’t help thinking while watching this movie that it’s unfair. How, for example, can I not like a movie with music by David Bowie? Several references to The Smiths? Fleetwood Mac, Smashing Pumpkins, The Beatles, etc. As well as discussions about To Kill A Mockingbird, On The Road and The Fountainhead? Can those books get any more influential to me?
It was as if I was a young virgin resisting the advances of her boyfriend after prom. Everything makes you want to give it all up but you don’t want to look cheap. Then the movie gets Charlie (Logan Lerman) to finally let loose to the tune of Come On Eileen by the Dexys Midnight Runners and you finally give in to the lust all too easily, quickly, with nary a look back. Everything will work out later. I will love this movie and the movie will love me back. And that’s it. I have given up resistance. It’s only halfway through but I’ve already marked this movie for greatness.
Ok well, maybe not that much. And certainly not as dramatically. But there it is anyway, and I am smiling like an idiot, enjoying myself from thereon.
So it’s hard for me to write about a Tintin movie with complete objectivity. In fact I considered skipping the movie altogether, so afraid am I of watching anything that wouldn’t live up to expectation, the only thing convincing me otherwise being the Spielberg name.
Annie (Kristen Wiig) is a 30-something bachelorette struggling with a battered sense of self after the combination of a failed relationship and a failed bakery business. As a result she allows herself to be used by Ted (John Hamm) as a convenient and easily dismissed fuck buddy, and goes about life directionless in a job she clearly hates. To add to this, her best friend Lillian (Maya Rudolph) announces she is getting married, promising to make her life even more miserable by forcing her to have to go it alone.