Alicia I love this movie so much

RyothChatty ridiculous rating

Asad Almond A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Lyapunov1859 I don't understand why this film received so many favorable reviews. It had an original storyline but there was no fascinating development to it. It was entertaining to some degree but a lot of the subplots were underdeveloped. The affair between Dani (the main character's sister) and the Irish guy was interesting enough because of the gap of physical attractiveness between Dani and her husband. It was resolved in a really hasty way though. The wife did not say or do enough to convince me that the husband really wanted to come back to her. The subplots on the whole felt like something a person would watch on TV.I also don't think Lake Bell is that good looking. Her high opinion of her looks showed a bit in how she was trying to make herself look so much prettier than the character Nancy. The character Jamie (Alexandra Holden) was really attractive in my opinion. I did not find it very realistic that a girl like her would play that part. Her character reminded me of an old woman.The ending also seemed rushed as though it needed more time to unfold. It would've been better if Bell allowed more tension and build-up before the end.

Martin Bradley A joy from start to finish. Lake Bell wrote and directed "In a World..." and also plays the central character, a Hollywood voice coach competing to be the new voice of the trailer, you know the one who sells the movie to you while you're munching your popcorn and it's one of the funniest films I've seen in a very long time and like a lot of the best comedies the jokes are exclusively verbal.Bell's terrific and she draws terrific performances from the rest of her cast including Eva Longoria playing herself in a brilliant cameo, (Bell is teaching her to sound like a Cockney gangster's wife). In fact, this is the kind of small budget comedy that should have gone onto Oscar success and become a classic rather than simply a cult movie but cult or classic, this is one to savor; it's a real gem.

Uncle Marvin In a World . . . is the directorial debut of the star Lake Bell (How to Make it in America, Million Dollar Arm). Bell plays an aspiring voice-over artist competing against her own father played by Fred Melamed (A Serious Man, New Girl), to get the role of trailer announcer ("In a world . . . gone mad . . . ONE MAN, and so on). Ken Marino (The State, Wanderlust) is the alpha male narrator-for-hire. He can't act but he's a funny guy. Fred Melamed fills the scenes like his body fills a suit. It's a film about feminism, family, and "the industry." It shows you a rarely seen world. The world of voice-over artistry is not all that exciting, but it has Nick Offerman (Parks and Rec, The Men Who Stare at Goats) and it's funny. In a World . . . definitely had it's moments.Where it lost me was the hackneyed romantic subplot. This production was brought to you by the Silverlake clique, so it had hipster comic Demetri Martin as the dorky-sweetie love interest. I hate the way so many modern romcoms tell guys that pathetic nerds are "good guys" who get the girl. Is it so bad to be cool? I digress . . . This picture made Sundance official selection. If you like independent film for the freshness and originality, or if you're a woman trying to make it in a man's world, if you can't get enough of Lake Bell, or if you dad is a niche Hollywood legend with a stereotypical shiksa goddess groupie, this is your film.

Johan Dondokambey Lake Bell quite nicely wrote the story to incorporate the important aspects of the voice-over industry, which most people take quite for granted. There's the main focus of targeting the highest levels at the blockbuster movie trailer voice-overs. But there's also the lesser extent of commercials voice-overs and even vocal coaching. The main conflict that ultimately pits an overachiever father with his own denied protégé of a daughter nicely sums up the story. Yet I feel that the side conflict with Louis and the thing with Moe and Dani is rather unfinished that it only feels like it's there to eat up duration. The acting side is a standard overall. Lake Bell did quite alright in walking in the shoes of Carol. But I think that the rest of the characters are only doing enough to make it a connected story, offering nothing more. Though for me, Lake Bell should also receive extra credit for doing three jobs of acting in a lead role herself, directing the movie and also writing the screenplay.