Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Ortiz Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

leethomas-11621 Intelligent comedy about a "lost" middle-aged couple trying to find "meaning" by connecting with a younger couple. But there's much more to this movie especially when we come across a storyline concerning what is fake or real in the media. The comedy is great too ("I didn't mean 'bless you' in the sneeze sense. In the Pope sense!") Both leads are wonderful and I'm not usually a Ben Stiller fan. In under 90 mins, the writer/director has made a tight movie that is smart and has real feeling. Only quibble? Overuse of the Baroque on the soundtrack but there's also Bowie, Lionel Richie, Paul McCartney & Wings, and lots of hip-hop! (viewed 4/17)

ice ruby red ** Spoiler Alert **I watched the movie and I'm still wondering what the flick's message was.I liked the city scenes, and I'll watch anything with Stiller in it, so it wasn't a total loss. But..There is so much they could have done with the concept of 40-somethings realizing that their youth is behind them! They could have made it funnier, and they could also have made it more poignant. Getting old is scary as hell. People treat you differently, especially at work, and you have all kinds of new body manifestations (skin tags, grey hair, age spots, etc.). All you have ever known is being young, and then one day it begins to dawn on you that you are "old", and you will never be young again!The ayahuasca scene could have been fun... just think of the hallucinations they could have had, the fun they could have poked at the Shaman, the crazy profound realizations they could have had (a vision quest... a totem animal...). Instead, the director chose to turn it into a puke fest. If they had to play up the vomit, they should have done this scene outdoors and had people go behind the bushes.Stiller's unfinished documentary seemed like an afterthought; it had no real place in the film – at least, not the way it was presented. Also, Stiller is supposed to be the protagonist, but I wasn't liking him so much when he went off on his father-in-law, who did nothing but try to help him by sitting thru 6 hours of a boring documentary and then giving very constructive advice. Stiller's character was never funny, only flawed.You're expecting a satisfying or climactic ending, or the issue of the deceit to be resolved. If you blink you'll miss it... the ethically challenged young film maker gets the fame he so desired – and Stiller's character, who evidently got nowhere with his own documentary, shrugs his shoulders and accepts what must be the moral of the story, which is... Young people who claw and lie their way to the top are just doing business as usual, and folks past their prime should sit back, accept their fate, and not concern themselves with things like integrity, honesty, and the pursuit of success. And the big 4-second payoff? The "old" couple is going to adopt a child! As if that matters. In fact, nothing in this film matters, as it doesn't appear to have a point. It's like a collage of random bits and pieces that someone Mod-podged together and decided to call a movie. There was nothing I could grab onto; nothing that drew me in.

Prismark10 Writer and director Noah Baumbach deals with what is liked to be middle aged in a youth obsessed society that is always looking for the next big young hotshot.Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts are Josh and Cornelia in this black tinged comedy. They are fortysomethings in New York. Their friends have kids, they have remained child free but age is catching up with them.Josh is a documentary film maker who made a successful film early in his career but is stuck in a project that is unwieldy and he is never likely to finish. Cornelia's father is a legendary film producer (Charles Grodin) who gives advice to to Josh about his documentary but Josh is unwilling to take it.A young couple Jamie (Adam Driver) and Darby (Amanda Seyfried) endear themselves to Josh and Cornelia who find themselves rejuvenated with the company of younger people and try crazy and hip things.Jamie has aspirations to be a documentary film-maker as well, Josh mentors him but soon discovers that Jamie has a cavalier approach to ethical film making and that their mutual friendship was more than just accidental and that Josh and Cornelia have been used for their connections.The film is sporadically amusing but is never involving, the four leads give good performances, Driver and Seyfried are charming and yet behind the facade also manipulative and self serving. It is great to see Grodin having a meaty cameo who in the end is just as deceptive and shallow as Jamie when it comes to documentary ethics.

SnoopyStyle Josh (Ben Stiller) and Cornelia Schrebnick (Naomi Watts) are a childless married couple in their 40s. He's a documentarian struggling to complete his movie for the last 10 years. She's unsatisfied working for her famed-documentarian father Leslie Breitbart (Charles Grodin). Their friends are having babies but they had tried and failed themselves. Jamie (Adam Driver) and Darby Massey (Amanda Seyfried) are a young hip couple who approaches Josh in his class. Soon, the Schrebnicks are pulled into their world.I love the sharp jabs launched at Josh's expense. That may annoy some people who are uncomfortable with the awkward truths being poked at. All four leads are doing amazing work. Adam Driver is the big difference. Noah Baumbach is at his sharpest up to this date. It's hilarious that he does throw-up humor in this.