a film review: This is 40

this film, simply put, is about a upper-middle-class family that loves each other, but doesn't like each other at all (if that makes any sense at all to you) and their struggles with aging. there, done!

i know, i know, i may have over simplified this film (my ass felt all 133 minutes of this one), but what more do you need to know? nothing? okay, maybe i have some other thoughts on this film.

we are reintroduced to Debbie (Leslie Mann) and Pete (Paul Rudd) who we know from Judd Apatow's previous film, Knocked Up some 7 years ago. they are a couple who seem to have nothing in common except for the fact that they share two children together. i feel that we aren't supposed to really like or really hate the husband and wife duo throughout this film, that they both have virtues and faults that are supposed to make them more realistic and less like film characters. blah blah blah. the problem i had was that i didn't feel that way at all.

i just thought Debbie was a crazy-ass bitch, and i felt bad for Pete. now this is where the lines of reality blur for me, and i'm sure the same goes for a lot of (bat-shit crazy) women out there who are like me, because we LOVE Paul Rudd. so during most of the film i was all like "what the fuck, bitch? if you have a problem being married to Paul Rudd, i'll take him off your hands for you. and let the man have a goddamn cupcake." as a friend told me, "i'd listen to grunge music with Paul Rudd any day of the week."

i feel bad for Leslie Mann, too, because i feel that with these film roles she is trying to bring well-written lead comedic lady roles forward, and she is a really funny lady and i want to see her doing these roles. it's just this role wasn't that. Debbie is just a nag. well i could actually go out on a tangent here with Leslie Mann in Apatow films because a lot of his roles for her feel they are just a showcase for him to be like "look at my hot wife, isn't she hot?" but i digress.

but the most important thing, what i loved the most was the house. it was beautiful! the same house from Knocked Up, it is just gorgeous (i've been trying to find pictures of the house, but i'm having a hard time and losing patience, so no pictures. boo!). i always thought it was the actual Apatow/Mann house, but from what i've read it's a house just down the street from the Apatow/Mann family home. so let's do some stalking, just kidding, no stalking. stalking is bad! i could move into that house and be at home. i want to see that home featured on HGTV.

i did like the film. and i feel bad that it hasn't been reviewed well. it is what it is, whiny rich white people having a hard time getting older and because i'm a whiny poor white person having a hard time getting older, i can go with it. xoxo.  

and one more Paul Rudd picture. you're welcome.