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My mom and I were bored, and she was curious about the movie, so we watched it to have a quick laugh, as Santiago Segura and Silvia Abril can be funny.

There's one or two jokes which land, the rest are on the level that you get reading Twitter zingers about the most commonly used comedy topics, which is sad for a movie that cost nearly 3M euros. It's 2020, and we have jokes about a little girl who can't pronounce right and is going to a logopedist?

One can agree with the social message that a movie conveys (the load of sharing children is not shared fairly across couples), but find it crude- laughs are gotten by having everyone in the movie be obnoxious, stupid or both. Takeshi Kitano hinted that the best comedy (and the "best violence") is unexpected; Almodóvar's is at his funniest when he puts his characters in bizarre situations, because jokes surprise you. This movie is exactly the opposite. It just tries to be relatable to the lowest common denominator Spaniard out there.

You could say that the movie has a few laughs in it and is good to watch if you are bored with nothing to do, but I say there's a massive number of good comedies that can keep you busy for ages, so please don't encourage more stuff like this.

This documentary has an interesting subject- a documentary-friendly one, even, as he taped and recorded a good deal of his life- skillful narrative and style (which blends nicely into the title character's imagery and perception) and possibly even more objectivity that one would expect seeing how the picture seems to be made and feature people who seem to genuinely love Daniel Johnston.

If creative genius and madness is a subject that piques your interest, you should see this. If it does not, you should see it too to discover it. It doesn't matter if you find his music irritating (I personally prefer other people's covers of his song- I came across his work via Nina Persson's A Camp project, which featured Walking the Cow- a song that blew me mind)- this guy really should be in the movies.