Let Go

Once again, I picked out the 2 star movie for the family to watch. Save yourself and your family from this horrific film. It's labeled a comedy yet there was not a single funny line.

The writing is what killed this film. It's very cheesy and unimaginative. The dialogue is very unnatural. I also didn't love the way many of the scenes were shot, it makes it look cheaper. That said, the acting really tried to elevate this film. A few great people in this- particularly David Denman, Kevin Hart, and Elizabeth Olsen. I think costumes did a really decent job of setting up the characters as well. Overall, I related wanted to like this movie and at times I was able to embrace the cheese-factor, but mostly it just made me sad that talented people and money went into making this script.

I think the reason this gem did not get the proper release is that it was marketed to a hip Kevin Hart audience and not the Ed Asner audience. Here you have something closer to The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel with brilliant performances but the marketing people missed the mark. Kevin Hart's tragic character Kris performance was spot on, it had its comic moments but you felt the character's fallen from grace humiliation. So if you went in thinking you were going to get a laugh a minute from this comic genius you were disappointed. Only Ed Asner could have pulled off Artie, the nasty crotchety old buzzard career criminal and still be so endearing. Director Brian Jett got Oscar worthy performances out of these two and others in the cast. As an audience, do we have the time to sit and appreciate the complexities of Walter, played brilliantly by David Denman? He had to play straight man to a cast of faulted characters while dealing with his own short comings. Who did not fall in love with Darla? Gillian Jacobs was, well, beautiful as ever and you sensed her conniving character becoming real and not just putting on an act just to get what she wanted.

I know that with people in the cast like Ed Asner, Kevin Hart, Dov Davidoff, Garrett Morris, Jack Carter, Rance Howard you'd expect a laugh a minute but instead you end up watching a sweet moving movie about people in situations that you have to laugh to keep from crying. This was a tragic comedy doing a high wire act between tragedy and comedy. Brian Jett did a great job with 4 strong characters, each with their own character arc, their own issues and their own way to resolving them. This is a comedy but not for the MTV crowd.

The movie is okay but definitely it's not a comedy movie. It's a drama.

Actors did they best they could with such a terrible script ..