As has been said, Ryder and Reeves are the only speaking actors in the film, acting against both beautiful scenery and small sets in what looks a very low budget production but doesn't lack anything for that. From the first scene, the dialogue is fast, witty and more realistic than most rom-coms. I enjoyed it from the get-go. The scenes would make an excellent stage play, as you're engrossed in the dialogue. You have to concentrate to keep up with the asides and references.
Ryder and Reeves have great chemistry on screen and clearly know each other really well so the awkward repartee and situations are made more cringeworthy with good acting rather uncomfortable people. I would not be surprised if a lot was ad-libbed but I've not read that anywhere. Their third pairing in a film (Bram Stoker's Dracula and Private Lives of Pippa Lee - although not opposite each other in the latter) they are great together, and I'd happily watch them in other films.
It is laugh out loud funny but also in your head happy funny and I'm sure it will bear repeat watching. It would make a funny audiobook, but their facial expressions and body language are superb and add a lot to the film. They're so natural in it. For Reeves doubters, his step away from sci-fi, action and monosyllabic "woodenness" please see this and see a great dry comedic actor with brilliant timing. Actually both of them have had detractors (I love her in Reality Bites but many find her delivery annoying). Both characters are bitter, cynical and world-weary but their lack of joi de vivre is surely more true to life than peppy teens mooning over lost love but bounding into a relationship with a hop and a skip and it all being rosy, with wedding bells not far behind. For forty-fifty-something's (or whatever age they were playing - they both don't seem to age much) this film is relatable on many levels. Both of them embody their baggage brilliantly and I'm sure they must have related to some of it too - apparently both being unlucky in love themselves. Whilst we can relate to their baggage and bitchiness, they're both nice people. She is sweet and trusting and he is - for all his hatred of intimacy - a gentleman and a decent chap.
I don't think I could fault the film aside from a few potential wine glass continuity errors... it really doesn't lack for its simplicity, originality or acting close up style.
There is no nudity, not much bad language (conversational expletives of annoyance or surprise rather than as punctuation), some graphic sex references and a clothed sex scene which some viewers may find cringeworthy - that's the point - and reference to Frank's in the "sweet spot" size wise, straight "balletically formed" penis has been widely advertised/reviewed so perhaps not for younger teen watching.
For adults. And I don't mean it's rated 18... I just don't think younger adults would understand this or get the humour. Besides, why let them in on the secret angst and baggage they have to look forward to, let them have their sweet romcoms with smushy Hollywood endings while they can.
The apropos tag line: check your baggage.
Witty and hilarious. Great date night or girls night viewing.
Ryder and Reeves have great chemistry on screen and clearly know each other really well so the awkward repartee and situations are made more cringeworthy with good acting rather uncomfortable people. I would not be surprised if a lot was ad-libbed but I've not read that anywhere. Their third pairing in a film (Bram Stoker's Dracula and Private Lives of Pippa Lee - although not opposite each other in the latter) they are great together, and I'd happily watch them in other films.
It is laugh out loud funny but also in your head happy funny and I'm sure it will bear repeat watching. It would make a funny audiobook, but their facial expressions and body language are superb and add a lot to the film. They're so natural in it. For Reeves doubters, his step away from sci-fi, action and monosyllabic "woodenness" please see this and see a great dry comedic actor with brilliant timing. Actually both of them have had detractors (I love her in Reality Bites but many find her delivery annoying). Both characters are bitter, cynical and world-weary but their lack of joi de vivre is surely more true to life than peppy teens mooning over lost love but bounding into a relationship with a hop and a skip and it all being rosy, with wedding bells not far behind. For forty-fifty-something's (or whatever age they were playing - they both don't seem to age much) this film is relatable on many levels. Both of them embody their baggage brilliantly and I'm sure they must have related to some of it too - apparently both being unlucky in love themselves. Whilst we can relate to their baggage and bitchiness, they're both nice people. She is sweet and trusting and he is - for all his hatred of intimacy - a gentleman and a decent chap.
I don't think I could fault the film aside from a few potential wine glass continuity errors... it really doesn't lack for its simplicity, originality or acting close up style.
There is no nudity, not much bad language (conversational expletives of annoyance or surprise rather than as punctuation), some graphic sex references and a clothed sex scene which some viewers may find cringeworthy - that's the point - and reference to Frank's in the "sweet spot" size wise, straight "balletically formed" penis has been widely advertised/reviewed so perhaps not for younger teen watching.
For adults. And I don't mean it's rated 18... I just don't think younger adults would understand this or get the humour. Besides, why let them in on the secret angst and baggage they have to look forward to, let them have their sweet romcoms with smushy Hollywood endings while they can.
The apropos tag line: check your baggage.
Witty and hilarious. Great date night or girls night viewing.