Away We Go (2009)

Thanks for the memories!

Stylish but barely mediocre overall

It is a performances centric movie

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Indie-comedy-drama of 35-ish hipster couple having their first baby - but takes a US (plus Montreal) nationwide road trip before finding that idyllic, suitable nest for starting a family. If one likes, this could be labeled 'Director Sam Mendes converting to familydom'.First off: I'm simply the wrong target group for this. This is for parents foremost, as it embraces traditional family values and child worship, which I personally can't identify with... and that's like trying to sell a sirloin steak to a vegetarian - because it pushes too many wrong buttons in me.Some chapter bits work fine (like the trip to Phoenix). Otherwise, two main traits sink this. 1: The overall mawkish, saccharine-sweet approach. It serves one sugar bomb dessert after another, even though you're stuffed right after the scene where the two sisters get in the jacuzzi at the bathtub shop... or why not where Chris Messina pours syrup on top of a house built of sugar cubes & pancakes to illustrate a happy family home (yeah, juuust like it would happen in real life)!2: The desperate need to cram a multitude of quirkiness in the passing character gallery, where not one person feels like they would exist anywhere else than on a script paper. For that reason, the laughter material is spotted minutes in advance. The singer-songwriter soundtrack also adds to the feel of being SO cliché-attached.It's well-meaning feel-goodness not without its charm, but remains a conservative mannequin on the inside, dressed in an alternative hipster/indie-costume. Score: 4/10 from Ozjeppe.

As I know the reasons I disliked this movie are kinda personal, I won't give it stars. Anyways I found the trailer shown on IMDb very misleading. There's another trailer by the way I've seen on a very famous video site that is less misleading. I thought I was going to watch a movie about 2 beep-ups as they call themselves who have a baby against all odds. Actually it's a movie about 2 rather successful businesspeople who are looking for a nice-looking mansion and a free babysitter even though they could afford a payed one. Also they don't seem to have any friends and know lots of stupid people. After meeting the 3rd stupid person I stopped watching. The amount of stupidness was just too much and overdone and annoying and I didn't like seeing any more of it. Some of the things the two main characters said highly upset me, such as saying 'we're beep-ups' (btw and very off-topic it's so funny you can't write a word in a review that is like the first word shown in an IMDb trailer...) while working for I don't know insurance companies or as something like an actual successful-seeming painter, or when they say stuff like 'nobody is in love as much as we are, right?' which is incredibly arrogant to say, like 'nobody in the world is as good as we are, right?' - less words would have been better here, and, well, other stuff, which might explain the having-no-friends-knowing-so-many-stupid-people-thing. If this movie was trying to be pure sarcasm I would have thought this stuff to be okay, but actually the romance music and beautiful picturing combined with these elements truly left me confused. I've heard the movie gets better at some stage. Well I don't think I'll feel tempted to check it out.

Maya Rudolph and John Krasinski are not critically acclaimed, by any means, but they were quite magical in Away We Go; a quirky, misnomer of a love story. Which, ironically made it one of my favorites. Burt (Krasinski) and Verona (Rudolph) take off on a "grass may be greener on the other side" road trip after the unmarried couple find themselves knocked-up without productive futures at hand. Eternal optimist, Burt, sticks right with skeptical Verona as she ventures to find a perfect place for their baby to grow-up. Never really able to argue, they refute about whether or not they are quote, unquote "Fuck-ups" only to discover home leads to home. Away We Go offers multiple great cameos, from Jeff Daniels (displaced father) to Maggie Gyllenhaal (radical, former friend). Director, Sam Mendes (Skyfall, Revolutionary Road, Road to Perdition) provides lots of candid, tender moments that have a way of of melting your heart.http://themovie-geist.blogspot.com/

I seen the rating on IMDb was only a 7.1 and i couldn't accept that, the most recent film it reminded me of was Knocked Up but this is a much funnier and a more dramatic character evolving film. This film took me on an emotional roller-coaster ride i cried as much as i laughed but also seen the good intentions of the film. Burt and Verona had a quirky relationship and they seemed very much in love but were unsure about how and where to raise their expectant child. They traveled around North America to see how other couples they know lived and have raised their children. Theses meetings with some very eccentric families helped shape their own views on how to be parents. The dialogue was hilarious and inventive. The acting was great and emotional inviting, i did feel involved in everything that happened in the film and really thought i was there experiencing everything and sympathized for an array of cast members. It was moving and thought provoking not only about how should people raise their children but also about peoples ideas of love and choice of ways to live.