Cyrus

wrote on the 12th "avoid if you are a little chavvy" Watched it again today and half way through I heard a lady pleading with her partner "just GO!" which he did....then sadly, 10 min later, stomped back in. At the moving, subtle ending, as the credits started he shouted "WHAT?" in the fashion that suggested he was witnessing his mother being stabbed to death! then stomped out, nearly taking the door off its hinges. It ADDED to my love of the film knowing I aint him! (oh, and that he had wasted his money!) 8/10

Not the comedy it suggests it is in the trailer. VERY slow and over long. Got very bored somewhere in the middle. Wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Wait til it's on DVD if you have to watch it, otherwise you'll just get annoyed at how much you paid to see it at the cinema! Disappointing.

... oh yes, and that hand-held, deliberately shaky, out of focus, camera-work is just the giddy limit!

Very poor. A misleading trailer and a painfully drawn out film. Unoriginal, boring and totally without any redeeming features except for the efforts the cast make to compensate for the absence of a script. Mumblecore should retain its low budget obscurity and stay away from any mainstream film. This absurd trend of improvisation just creates another 'style' of acting which, contrary to the film-makers' expectations, is not at all natural. There were some nice parts to this film, but unfortunately they were islands in a sea of utter mind-numbing dross. I stuck it out to the end solely to see what sort of resolution it had, and was almost comatose by the time the credits began. I would have been happy to leave this film to the romantics and Mumblecore die-hards had it not been for the totally misleading advertising. Dreary I'm afraid.

Please don't go to this film, like I did...expecting a comedy, or else you will pretty much be disappointed, having said that if you go expecting, a nicely observed, nuanced and warm hearted film, which is well cast and is modest in it's aims you'll probably be delighted. I liked the leads and Jonah Hill does as much as can be done with his part, but the plot is a little illogical at times and the end is almost right but veers off somewhere before it gets there. Nice film but won't be many peoples favourite of the year.

Interesting review and comments, I’d been tempted to see the film following viewing the trailer and have to say the best bits are in the trailer. Yes, it is an adult’s film, something the pissed Australian girl in my row failed to grasp (- cinema’s why sell alcohol to these morons?). However, the film is excruciating in the first 20 minutes, sure there are some touching moments and some funny ones, but 4 stars is way too many stars IMHO. Jonah Hill was good, but it was all too unbelievable… the relationship between mother and son, along with Marissa Tomei falling for John C Reilly. ….After all, she didn’t fall for George Costanza !!

Oh, yeah! 3 stars but that over-rates it a little. Good intentions unsuccessfully realised.

Has its moments but there’s something wrong with the ‘proportions’ of it so that the size of the performances is too large for the small scale of the events and settings. The three leads all wind up looking mental and I’m not sure that’s its intention because it seems to finish with a standard, pat Hollywood resolution where everyone becomes self-aware. There are some good performances but Marisa Tomei as the mother of Cyrus throws the whole thing off with a big, dumb-sitcom style of performance, I think. Overall, the film lacks enough truth for the story and outcome to have either sincerity or any real meaning. It’s a very mainstream film that seems to be taking itself seriously when it has no cause to. Sort of alright but not good. And ric’s right, isn’t he? Some of the restless camerawork’s really pointless to a degree that it’s annoying.

On the upside, this is a likeable (if predictable) story, well acted throughout. On the downside, the camera’s a bit shaky, and it’s not nearly as funny as it likes to think it is. But this is not a 4 star movie. Seriously, it’s not. This is a 2 star movie that’ll be shown on one of the premier movie channels at Christmas, as it’ll only have a short run at the flicks. Enjoyable, but not the best.

If you are a little chavy, please dont go. "All the best bits were in the trailer" (heard this on exit) And yes, if youre looking for the film that exists in the trailer, Its called (The likeable) GROWN UPS but for the rest of us we have one of the most adult, heartfelt & downright moving films for many a year (pssst....its funny too, yup, theres even laughs NOT in the trailer!) 8/10