I had heard good things about this movie and went into it with high hopes. Those hopes faded quickly. I love The Office. LOVE IT. But John Krasinski cannot act. I found that out when I watched Away We Go. I can only figure that John K. *is* Jim on The Office, IRL, and therefore that character requires no acting ability.
The characters are supposed to be 33 and 34. Maya Rudolph looked 54 and John K. looked 24. It was really distracting. I don't know what the dumb get-up John's character had on--the awful beard, glasses from 1960, wild hair (but he was not a hippie--the movie has fun with making fun of hippies later on)--was about. Worst of all, there is zero chemistry between these two. They were not believable as a couple. They may as well have been in separate rooms reading their lines to a wall as far as their acting abilities and chemistry went.
The couple mentions early in the movie that they realize they are a couple of "f*uck-ups." After all, they have a cardboard window. In the next scene, they are jetting across the US and Canada, staying in hotels and buying groceries for their hosts--a couple of rich f*ck-ups I guess. They are jetting across the US and Canada to find a place to raise their child, with people who they will have a sense of family with. So of course, they run to visit people they barely know, should have known were absolutely obnoxious and in no way appropriate to have around children, or people don't know at all. If this is their logic in life, they really are a couple of f*ck-ups.
The "wedding vows" on the trampoline did it for me and that's when I turned it off.
The characters are supposed to be 33 and 34. Maya Rudolph looked 54 and John K. looked 24. It was really distracting. I don't know what the dumb get-up John's character had on--the awful beard, glasses from 1960, wild hair (but he was not a hippie--the movie has fun with making fun of hippies later on)--was about. Worst of all, there is zero chemistry between these two. They were not believable as a couple. They may as well have been in separate rooms reading their lines to a wall as far as their acting abilities and chemistry went.
The couple mentions early in the movie that they realize they are a couple of "f*uck-ups." After all, they have a cardboard window. In the next scene, they are jetting across the US and Canada, staying in hotels and buying groceries for their hosts--a couple of rich f*ck-ups I guess. They are jetting across the US and Canada to find a place to raise their child, with people who they will have a sense of family with. So of course, they run to visit people they barely know, should have known were absolutely obnoxious and in no way appropriate to have around children, or people don't know at all. If this is their logic in life, they really are a couple of f*ck-ups.
The "wedding vows" on the trampoline did it for me and that's when I turned it off.