DVD: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Category: Indie/Rom-Com
Rating: 7 out of 10
The much lighter side of the 'asteroid colliding with Earth and wiping us all out' scenario, this movie has a guy in his late 40s whose wife leaves him with 2 weeks to the end of the world, meeting his young, kooky upstairs neighbour for the first time. Splitting up with her useless boyfriend and longing to see her parents and siblings in England for the last time, Penny is forced into a roadtrip with Dodge when the city erupts in anarchy but the countryside is still quite pleasant really. The two oddballs take a gently amusing and touching journey with a week until the end of everything.... I had a goofy smile on my face after watching this.
Pros: Steve Carell's ordinary schmuck act; quirky storyline; the "Friendsy's tavern" scene; more laughs than I expected.
Cons: Keira Knightley's 'mouth acting' which I get really annoyed by, the big age gap (although arguably that's the point); some sub-plots are given a little too much airtime.
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