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Originally Posted by TheCroShow
What a weird movie, but eh? I kinda hated This is 40 because it wasn't very good. It wasn't funny, it wasn't moving and in typical Apatow fashion it was way too long. I'm not sure if it would help if he hired real actors to play the family, with the exception of Rudd.
Uh, John Lithgow? Albert Brooks?
No, it was the material that was the problem. How do you shift the tone of the movie 90 minutes in like that? If it had actually been as funny as it was trying to be, it would have been REALLY annoying. As it was, it was just more mystification when they got all heavy on us toward the interminable end.
I swear to God, at one point I was really going through my memory to see when I had paused the film (I had not paused it once), so long had it run. Then I started to think maybe I was crazy, that I had started watching it an hour later than I had thought. Nope.
This is not
Lawrence of Arabia, Judd. Come on. It's some whiny, juvenile, vapid 40 year olds, enjoying their infinite extended adolescences.