our idiot movie

oh paul rudd. why do you torment me? you don't have lead roles coming out the ass so when you do star in a movie i'm generally excited. when i first saw the trailer for our idiot brother i was only slightly interested. i should have listened to my gut and saved my money.

first off... why would you cover your beautiful face with that mangy beard? WHY?! second... not a big fan of two of the starring females. (i won't name names in fear of alienating what might be the one person who will read this.) thirdly... simpletons are not attractive. i don't care how good looking or charming you are... simple/oblivious people frustrate me to no end. ok here's my unfortunate review of the unfortunate movie...

i will not qualify anything here as a spoiler since this movie is SO FRIGGIN' predictable its not even funny. i'm pretty sure that a feral human living in the backwoods of north dakota who's never even encountered another human could outline the plot and subsequent outcomes for you. read on if you want to be bored to tears.

ned. simple simple ned. we first meet him selling pot to cop. in uniform. at a farmers market. can you guess what happens next? he's arrested and goes to jail! UNBELIEVABLE, right?! flash forward a few months, ned gets out on good behavior and goes back to the farm he and his girlfriend lived on, only the find that she has moved on (to a new simpleton!). she's a total douche bag to him and kicks him out... and keeps his dog, willie nelson. cold.

so he moves in with his (simpleton of a) mother and we meet his 3 sisters. liz, miranda and natalie. for whatever reason he doesn't want to live with his mom and moves in with each of his sisters and upon first glance seems to fuck up each of their lives. he catches liz's husband cheating, refuses to back miranda in a scandalizing magazine article and rats out natalie's pregnancy to her lesbian partner. guess what... they all get pissed at HIM! this is where i got a little miffed. the movie makes every female character seem over reactive and irrational. except the mom... she's just an old wino. yes women can be crazy and emotional but the events here just make it seem like all women are just delusional, lying, cheating, petty or some violent combination of all four. it's not misogynistic per se... but it is pretty unfair. i'm not saying what they did or how they reacted was right or wrong but it was overgeneralizing.

of course ned then tells his parole officer that he smoked pot with the kid across the street and gets... put back in jail. his sisters see the "error in their ways" and try and bail him out. except he won't accept their bail because he's a simple man and has been convinced that he was the reason for his family's' unhappiness. so instead of throwing in the towel the family comes to the obvious (?) realization that by stealing his dog from his douche bag ex, he will accept their money and apologies and come home! and it works. of course. everyone is happy in the end. oh and ned meets what the audience assumes to be his soul mate because she has a dog named dolly parton. AWWWWW. *rolls eyes* the end. credits roll.

interestingly enough the credits have a blooper reel that are actually kind of funny. presumably the people involved in the film realized the movie was a complete turd and decided to give a little something that says "hey... thanks for sticking this one out guys. we really appreciate your $13."

our idiot brother :: d