Wordiezett So much average

VividSimon Simply Perfect

Lawbolisted Powerful

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

S. Felton I am writing this movie for one reason. I am tired of watching awful movies with great actors, and I am going to just put 2 questions "out there," though I am certain I won't get an answer.Yes, this movie is awful. It is infantile, it is stupid, it is full of clichés, there is almost nothing entertaining or interesting in the entire movie. The ridiculously contrived scene before the "wrap" reaches an even higher level of stupidity than the rest of the movie,, and that's saying something. I watched most of the dvd on fast forward, and it was still a huge waste of time.So I wonder, do the great actors in this movie realize what kind of cr*p they are creating when they are shooting the scenes? Do they realize what garbage they've been in when they watch the movie, assuming they do? In fact this would be another interesting question, do they even watch the inferior movies they've act in?Think of all the great movies Annette Bening, Matt Dillon, and Bob Balaban have been in. Surely they can tell the difference between those movies/scripts and this p.o.s.I wonder.

phoenix 2 Imogene is a middle aged woman who after being fired from her job and left by her boyfriend, she returns to live with her mother for a few days, as her landlord evicts her. During her stay many of the family secrets are revealed. The film was not bad, it was funny actually, but not memorable. The performances were great, showing the depth of the characters and their weaknesses. But the story, even though it was good, it seemed to have too much going on. And even though the storyline was okay, the too many facts were confusing and tiring. Also the soundtrack was bad.So 3 out of 10, because it wasn't as enjoyable as it could have been.

napierslogs "Girl Most Likely" is Imogene (Kristen Wiig); a girl once likely to become the next big playwright in New York City, now she's desperately hanging on to the upper-class lifestyle convinced that it's all about who you know, where you live, and who you are with. A failed attempt of a fake suicide attempt sends Imogene back where she came from. All the way to New Jersey.It's an indie film with a fairly minimal distribution, which generally means the film is going to try to survive on quirky comedy. Luckily, Wiig has had a decade's worth of experience doing quirky comedy on "Saturday Night Live". Also, luckily the film is more than just a quirky indie comedy. It's very much a character study, and a bit of a quarter- life crisis dramedy thrown in for good measure. Imogene doesn't know herself very well. She once knew she was a good writer, now she just thinks she's a good writer. She once knew she was better than the family she came from, now she just thinks she's better. She also thinks her life will be better if she gets to know her great and successful father whom she doesn't know.Her home life features comedy from her weird and bizarre mother, Zelda, her weirder and more bizarre new-step-father-like figure, George, and her weird but well-intentioned younger brother, Ralph. There's also a strange man sleeping in her bed. This strange man is Lee (Darren Criss), who is actually not strange at all. He is a young man mired in a quarter-life crisis who has rented out her room as a place to stay. He represents the romantic angle of Imogene's attempt to get her life back on track, and was actually a very welcome addition to the movie. Lee was much more sane, understanding, and more aware of his place in life than any of the characters. He was exactly the type of guy who could keep Imogene more grounded with her distorted life views.The comedy is sweet, although at times it can become to quirky to be all that funny. The writing is good, even though at times it can be a little too self-aware to be all the great. But "Girl Most Likely" is a fairly enjoyable journey of a girl who has completely lost her way in life. It focuses on family, ambition and ties it all up with quirky comedy.

zetes A movie whose script is so bad you have to wonder how it ever got made. It would easily be one of the worst movies that came out last year if not for the charming lead performance by Kristen Wiig. The performance isn't that much different from her work in Bridesmaids, but she was so good there I really didn't mind revisiting it. Wiig plays Imogene (which was the original name of the film), a failed playwright in New York City who has to move back in with her mother (Annette Bening) in Atlantic City after a failed suicide attempt. The trailer promised a funny movie about a messed up adult woman dealing with her nutjob mom, but Bening's character pretty much falls by the wayside. Again, one has to wonder why an actress of Bening's status signed onto this project. There's some stuff about Bening's new boyfriend (Matt Dillon), an eccentric man who claims to be a secret CIA agent. Most of the movie has Wiig falling for younger man Darren Criss. He's not bad, but the romance isn't that interesting. There's also Wiig's socially inept brother, Christopher Fitzgerald. This character is the movie's greatest failing. He's obsessed with hermit crabs and has built his own shell. The inane quirk comes in hard from left field, and any genuine emotions the film wants to have (there's a decent plot line about Wiig and Fitzgerald trying to find their long-lost father, Bob Balaban) are sabotaged. There are some amusing moments, and Wiig makes it mostly watchable, but it never builds to anything. The climax is based 100% on the film's worst, most quirky elements, and it's insanely dumb.