16 July 2010

Little Hitler

Cyrus

Crit
This was an episode of Mary Tyler Moore once: Mary met the perfect guy, except for "one little blind spot about his son." What's that? someone (probably Murray) asks. "He likes him," Mary cringes.

So Jay and Mark Duplass take that perfectly good sitcom plot and take it to the very brink of the serious and legitimate "is there any hope for this relationship?" and in fact even answer that question honestly, then lose the courage of their convictions. Moreover, they barely address the underlying question of how such a fabulous person can have raised such a sociopath.

That said, I enjoyed the film--it's hard not to enjoy watching John C. Reilly and Marisa Tomei play off of each other. But I guess I should have hated it.

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