It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

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.

Blistering performances.

First, the technical problems with this stinker: The sound is so poor that you can't understand the actors half the time. The colorist decided to turn the saturation up to 11 so that the entire film looks like it was put through a Photoshop filter from 1999. Finally the story is about children trapped in adult bodies who do the equivalent of fart jokes as their only means of communication. I guess they are transchildren.The Canadian content is stuffed down every opening of the human head non-stop. First we get tourism, then we get the Beaches in Toronto, then we get a bunch of Toronto only Canadian bands throughout, Leonard Cohen is thrown in to class up the joint, and in the final alcoholic crisis scene we are forced to listen to Burton Cummings on the car radio.The threadbare story is a woman that is bored with her life and latches on to the first good looking sarcastic pauper she finds. Only this pauper (a rickshaw driver) has oodles of money and lives in Toronto's toniest areas and can afford about $15,000 a month in rent.It is so boring that you'll probably decide to mop the floor or clean the toilet while its playing. But your patience will be rewarded. At the end there is one of the most unintentionally hilarious sex scenes to ever hit the silver screen. Our amoral heroine who emotes constantly from every pore finally bags her Adonis (with her cuck of a husband's permission) and as the camera whirls around their lovemaking it gets funnier and funnier. At first its the Kama Sutra 101 then with each circle more people join in, threesomes with girls, threesomes with guys.... I fully expected a goat and some chickens to join in the fun. This is a chick film that was left in the nuclear reactor and came out mangled and unable to walk or talk.The author's message is clear. Men should just get out of the way while women explore their sexual fantasies while they laugh and cry A lot.This is truly Mystery Science Theatre 3000 material.

Where do I begin... I don't want to waste my time on this movie so I'll try and keep things short: Don't see this movie. The main cast is more than capable of pulling off a good performance so I'm not sure why they were so horrible in this. Seth Rogan's performance was OK I guess but literally everyone in this movie was so awkward and flat it was actually pretty astounding. Almost everything in this movie was cliché to the point where you know exactly what's about to happen even when at a few points you're not entirely sure because of how awkward the characters are being to the point where you can't help but feel "What the f*ck is going on right now?". I've wasted enough time on this movie, I'm not going to waste any more time fixing that run on sentence. It's corny as all h*ll, there are more than a handful of cringy moments. There's one nude scene where you can tell the director just put it there to check off some feminist checklist (and I have absolutely NOTHING wrong with feminism, I do however have something wrong scenes so forced I can't help but feel the need to cement up my *sshole). I would only watch this movie if you have some sort of fetish to not finish a movie. I have NO idea how this movie got so many good reviews. Perhapse they're from fans of the director? I've never seen any of the director's other work, but I've heard she's very good. This movie IS NOT an example of this.

The story follows Margot (Michelle Williams) who without doubt loves her husband, Lou (Seth Rogen), and has been married to him for years, one day she meets who turns out to be her new neighbour on a plane Daniel as she gets to know him more she cannot deny her feelings for him.The story focuses on the married couple's relationship and their attempts to reignite a lost spark between them. It's daring for the filmmaker to portray a story about infidelity in love. Many love films portray infidelity as something committed by the antagonist or villain of a film, yet this film seeks to, on a very human level, understand how this can happen in long loving relationships by inviting us into the mind and heart of Margot.A moment in the film that really resonated with me was when she was the most joyful and with Daniel, when they were on the fair ride with the song "Video Killed the Radio Star." By Buggles playing. It's the moment that the film invites the audience to see what's important as they can relate it to a previous sequence where she explains how much the song meant to her and her brother. This emphasized by the end sequence as the song is playing at the end, telling us how important Daniel is her happiness.It's a love story like no other, as it is about loving two people. There is an overall sadness about the marriage and that she wants it so much to work, yet she has love and desire for another man. The husband is portrayed as understanding to her by the end of the film as the have realized their unhappiness.It's a very powerful and enjoyable film that explores the nature of love and relationships.

I love cutesy indie films and quirky romance as much as the next millennial. But I really hated this film. In simple terms, Margot, played by Michelle Williams, is selfish and childish, and she throws away a marriage because it's boring. That in and of itself would be a good topic for a film: it is normal for relationships to get boring and individuals to question if they are happy. However, none of Margot's actions are mature, she goes through very little personal growth, and ultimately the film ends with her having a pity-party for herself instead of growing as an adult. The film starts with the married Margot on a business trip. She meets Luke, a handsome stranger that she instantly has chemistry with, on the flight home. They do pointless quirky things and have conversations that are so forcefully quirky that they actually become banal. When they land, she learns that Luke is her new neighbor. Margot begins to wonder if she's truly happy in her five year old marriage to Lou, played by Seth Rogen, while also toying with the idea of a relationship with Luke. Eventually, she leaves Lou for Luke, they have a grand old time, but eventually that relationship also becomes boring and Margot has a self-pity party and the movie ends. Now, for the reasons why this movie is terrible. First off, the quirky rom-com job that Luke has is rickshaw driver. But he's also an artist. Err... wait, not an artist. He's just a painter because, and this is his actual explanation, "I paint for myself and I pay my rent by driving a rickshaw through town like a modern day hobo." He's too much of a coward to show other people his art, so he can't be an artist. This revelation comes right after a pointless exposition about how he understands Margot better than she understands herself and sees that "part of her is not living up to her full potential." Please note that this is a woman he has known for the length of a plane ride and coffee shop visit, but I guess we're supposed to read his spot on intuition about Margot as romantic. This is also just one of many examples of exposition in this film: it seems to be largely incapable of "showing" things and instead just chooses to have characters explicitly outline them.Meanwhile Lou and Margot's relationship continues to be uneventful. Except they too have such eye-rolling levels of "quirky" banter that you quickly lose any investment you might have in their relationship and just hope it ends so you don't have to hear them cutely describe, and again this is true, the ways they want to mangle each other to death. Not a word of dialogue between them feels authentic or sincere. It's as if the script writer had a friend say "Me and an ex used to threaten each other but in a romantic way. You should try that!" The writer was hell bent on coming up with cutesy yet unique dialogue, but the result is not interesting and does nothing to set up a believable relationship between the characters. Margot tries to cheat on Lou multiple times, but at no point over the course of the movie do they actually have a conversation about the state of their relationship, which at most is boring. Lou is not abusive, unemployed, lazy, uncaring, or uninteresting. The reason Margot is unhappy is because she is needy and the relationship has reached the stage where things naturally mellow out and the mundanity of life is the primary part of the relationship. This was the main reason I watched this movie: the idea of dealing with a relationship that has lost it's spark is realistic but also is rarely portrayed successfully in film. I had high hopes for a film that took on such a relatable aspect of life.Instead though, we get a selfish woman who callously leaves her husband only to woefully realize later that this new relationship will also become boring. She regrets leaving her husband, but not because she's experienced any kind of personal growth; it's more of a self-pity where she cries over what she lost and not what she did or the personal flaws that led to her making such a mistake. And, like the intuition that Luke has about Margot, this is all told to the audience via expose instead of shown through emotions and actions. Basically, Lou's alcoholic sister crashes her car and tells Margot that despite the fact that she (the alcoholic) is a screw-up, that Margot is the one who made a mistake she should regret. This film is really bad at showing, not telling which makes it a waste of the medium. In the end, Margot's personal growth moment comes when she decides to go to the fair by herself and has some realization about relying on herself, but ultimately she never grows up beyond "woman-child who doesn't know how to deal with no one paying attention to her." The realistic difficulties of being in a relationship are given nothing more than lip service in this film and ultimately we just watch a woman throw away a relationship because she's too petulant to have an adult conversation with her husband about what she wants and instead chooses to run off with a creepy prince charming bullshit character. It's like this movie was written by a high schooler who really thought that Summer was the bad guy in 500 Days of Summer.