I saw the trailer for this movie a few weeks ago and the first thing that popped into my head was "I have to watch this movie". After speaking with a couple friends who saw the movie in an advanced screening my next thought was "I can not miss this movie". So when it came time to go and see a movie, my wife and I both immediately selected this one as our first pick for the evening. Neither of us was disappointed in our choice.
The movie follows the growing friendship bond between an aristocrat quadriplegic and a good hearted young man from the 'other side of the tracks' who is hired on as a care giver. The rest of the story is all about how the two slowly become friends and the things that they do for each other to strengthen their friendship.
Why this is such a funny movie is that the situations and humor are not forced ones like all the other comedies that are out there. An extreme example would be humor like The Hangover where granted there might be some bachelor parties that come like that those situations are more like the chances of being hit by a meteor after winning the lottery. The humor in this movie are all realistic one liner bantering that could happen in your every day life with friends or family, spur of the moment jabs and jokes that make you smile and laugh and even go and repeat it to friends as a 'guess what she said' kind of stories.
The two main characters are great together. They play off each others timing to a T and even made me believe that they were actual friends for life and not just actors portraying friends in a movie. The supporting actors are great as well. The attractive yet unattainable assistant to the aristocrat that the caregiver keeps hitting on relentlessly does an amazing job, and even the house keeper does a great job of playing the frumpy yet friendly person. The only down side is that at the end of the movie you get to see a real video of the two people in the film. The difference in looks are quite apparent. It would be like if I had a movie made about my life and I was played by George Clooney or Tatum Channing instead of someone like Neil Patrick Harris or Michael Cera (geeky main character from SuperBad).
The only really negative thing that I can say about this movie would be the same thing that I say about all foreign subtitled films that both my wife and I disagree on 100%. She likes to have the film played in the original language and subtitled while I prefer to have it dubbed in English, even if the dubbing is horrible and the words don't match the lip movements. There were many times in the movie where one of the characters would go on a rant or discussion and they would take for a good 30-45 seconds of fast talking ranting and the subtitles would come up as reading "No, get out". I, at these moments, sat back and had this sneaky suspicion that something else was said in the exchange but not given. Granted, I do understand that they can't put up a direct translation but only a paraphrase because if a direct translation was up you would be having to read about 20 words a second to keep up with everything. Just sits a bit uneasy with me is all.
I would have to rate this movie at 4.5 popped popcorns out of 5. I would have given it a 5 but that would make a perfect movie and there can be no such thing as a perfect movie....but this one comes close.
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