Wanderlust (2012)

Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston are big city folk, they enjoy stress, cramped apartments and working jobs they don't really like, then when Rudd loses his job they are forced to move out of the city and get a job working for his brother. On the way there they encounter a hippy commune disguised as a B&B and spend the night there, he likes it, she doesn't. So they leave the next day and roll up to the brothers. He is a dick so they escape back to the commune to see if they can live like that. Free Love, drugs, veganism, guitar jams etc. She likes it, he doesn't. Then a conclusion I guess and that's basically the film.

I went to see this film based on one funny remark in the trailer and Alan Alda. Unfortunately I ignored the reviews... This film is abysmal. It's a comedy that isn't funny, which is surely one of the biggest movie crimes. You see, they fall in to pretty much every single cliche imaginable, there's deceipt, there's the wise old drug addled man who believes in the spirit of the place but not every practice. But worse than that is the crudity of the film. You see a woman deliver her own baby, it's not funny, it's not shocking, it's just gross and doesn't add anything to the story. You see Paul Rudd stand in front of a mirror saying things like "I'm gonna stick my penis in you" for about 2 minutes (it felt like forever) - apparently this was one of the comedy highlights as it was reprised in the obligatory out takes during the trailers. It wasn't funny and after a while was actually a little repulsive. Elsewhere you get excessive shots of a penis (which nobody wants to see - and unless in context like 'shame' simply is confusing). You get jokes about pubes, shitting and not a lot else.

I imagine this film will appeal to 13 year olds, except they probably won't get the hippy references, which aren't funny either so I guess it doesn't matter. You get a couple of R Kelly references.. .I mean, is he still big? I don't know, I just thought he'd dropped off the map a little, either way they seemed really forced, as though he was exec producer or something and fancied getting his name mentioned.

Jennifer Aniston is a decent comedy actress, and Paul Rudd a decent comedy actor, they can do better than this, and yet this film is awful, I would struggle to think of anything good about it. It's dull and unfunny. Avoid, avoid avoid. Yes, three avoids. Even Alan Alda, who is usually so wonderful on screen (though may not have the best choices for projects) can't help this film being shit.