This shares considerable mean-spirited DNA with
Young Adult, but it lacks that excellent film's courage of its misanthropic convictions, ultimately providing a thoroughly conventional motive for 40-year-old Guy Trilby's (
Jason Bateman, who also directed, and who, to be fair, plays a great prick) campaign to enter and embarrass a national spelling bee. But if the destination is a shopping mall, the ride is part funhouse, part whorehouse.
Trailers
- The Signal--Oops: I actually first saw this yesterday, but while taking notes in the dark on Noah, I wrote over and obliterated the title. Could go either way, but my money's on awful.
- A Haunted House 2--I get the sense, from cues apart from anything's actually being funny, that this is meant to be a comedy.
- Neighbors--What happens when a fraternity house moves in next door? Now that's high-concept!
- Draft Day--Speaking of the Reitmans . . . Might not be bad.
- Blended--Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler once made a very smart, sweet, funny romantic comedy together, so I'm not going to say anything about this one.
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