This Movie is Good (Best of Summer Edition)
It slid just in under the wire of the seasons, but I think I may have just seen my favorite movie of the summer. I've seen some good ones over the past few months (notably, Superbad, which is also fantastic), but after seeing this movie, I was sparked to post about it.
It's in limited release right now (in LA, at the Laemmle in Pasadena as well as the nice new Landmark Theaters on Pico), but worth seeking out. Just watch the trailer:
It is a funny, warm movie. Someone pointed out that it was kind of like a Christopher Guest movie, and I tend to agree (does that mean we can trade in For Your Consideration, then?), but in the best possible way. It would have been easy to make this movie one big joke at the subjects' expenses, but I never felt like I was laughing at them. It's just a great movie, and you'll have to see it to believe me when I say it is actually sweet, too. Oh, and the audience cheered at the end, even...
