Wanderlust

I wasn't really excited about watching this movie at all when it first began. I thought it would be really lame and be one of those comedies where every scene with any type of hilarity would be played in the trailers. Luckily, I was wrong, and though Wanderlust does miss the mark every so often, it hits far more than it misses and makes it easy for me to recommend this.

Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd play Linda and George, a  Manhattan couple used to the finer things in life...until they both get fired. While browsing through various living options, they come across a town that seems quite...different than the rest, operating on values of loyalty, free love, public nudity, and a complete aversion to any type of technology. Though the townfolk's way of life seems quite foreign and downright bizzare at first, they slowly begin to accept these people's ways, morphing from modern people to flat-out hippies.

Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston are perfect as the lead couple. Jennifer Aniston doesn't really have the best track record with her work on the big screen, but she shines here, easily delivering one of her best performances in one of her best movies.

And as I've mentioned before, Wanderlust is actually quite hillarious with scenes that weren't beaten to death in the trailers. Most noteworthy of those being several scenes in the beginning, with Aniston pitching her penguins with diseases documentary to HBO and the inconsistency and quite realisticallly hillarious car ride that perfectly depicts how fast people change their mood, tone, and any type of emotions in the process especially while traveling.

Though Wanderlust does exhaust some of its' material and almost come across as quite...desperate at times, the lead performances, supporting performances, and general laugh to fail ratio is enough for me to recommend this. Just don't expect anything terribly fresh or surprising, otherwise you'll probably feel as screwed as the main characters do at times.

2/4