Written by Luke Barnes
Summary
Two, questionably, young go getters, played by Paul Rudd and Jennifer Anniston lose everything in the 2008 economic crisis and so decide to go and join a commune.
I understand that the rom-com genre is not really a place of originality but come on, I have seen this same film so many times before. It is a very predictable run away from your problems and join the circus sort of narrative structure and everything progresses in the way you would expect it to with little to no surprises.
Moreover, the way this film presents communes and those who dwell within them could be ripped straight out of a book of cliches as of course they are all wacky, have issues with boundaries and are into sleeping around. The last point I thought felt really forced into the narrative and when Anniston’s character does decide she wants to cheat on her husband it comes out of nowhere and doesn’t make sense from a character perspective.
The humour and the heart were all very genre standard neither particularly affected me in anyway.
Overall, yet another forgettable rom-com.
Pros.
Rudd has fun with it
It is watchable
Cons.
Reducing communes to a stereotype
The free love plot point
It was generic
It was too familiar
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