Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

'This Is Where I Leave You' is a good mix of funny moments and dramatic moments of reflection. It's basically the story of four siblings - Judd (Bateman), Wendy (Fey), Phillip (Driver) & Paul (Stoll) - and how they, along with their mum (Fonda), deal with their father's death. There's lots of squabbling and jibes, but also some nice scenes with some emotional depth.This film is slightly better than 'Date Night', Levy's similar film from a few years ago with Fey. It's not too long, is quite well paced and has a good soundtrack. My main gripe is that - since I can relate! - there wasn't a more fleshed-out character for Paul, the big brother. I think Phillip comes off being the most interesting, but it's enjoyable seeing how they all interact with each other & their sibling's partners. No real conclusion, but there is a few unnecessary spanners thrown in the works at the end.The best bits are when they all deal with the loss with some levity, especially aided by "Boner" the Rabbi (Schwartz), some of Fey's quips and the toilet-training kid. Byrne's good as Bateman's love interest, but since there's so many cast members, doesn't get enough screen time, along with Fonda.

As you all know I share ratings with following sequence: rating = number of stars, 6=1(poor), 7=2(average), 8=3(good), 9=4(very good), and 10=5(excellent). Now I will tell you why I have been rated this as poor.The movie portrays a story where a person temporarily gets into relationship only to forgive a member in his past that got into relationship with somebody else. Further the old couple would again get into relationship after everything clears. Ideally this makes the story weak. Only psychiatrists would know if it would work. Ideally the past companion is to be forgiven without making any blundered choices. Thus I rate the movie as poor.

Sometimes you just can't quite begin to fathom why a movie was made, it's not to say the movie is utterly horrible or irremediably bad, but it's existence is one that can't be nailed down, This is Where I Leave You is one of these such films. Why did such a generic and unoriginal film attract such a varied and talented cast? Why did the films writer Jonathan Tropper try so hard to fit in all the awkward family tropes of reunion movies past into one script? These are but a few of the countless such questions you could ask of this film and are questions in which I for one can't answer.The Internship director Shawn Levy has instilled his family dramedy with so many plot strands, so many awkward moments and so many underused actors that it's clear Leave was struggling from the get-go with an identity crisis. In a crowded marketplace of estranged families banding together in adversity or death it does little to distinguish itself from the pack, at any moment you're just expecting a Sigor Ros or Bon Iver song to play in the background amongst a varied amount of other such elements prone to pop up in such films. What makes Leave even more frustrating in this concern is that there are moments that work in the film, short bursts of genuine heart and humour that are quickly smothered out by another outlandish development that encircles our Altman family members.Our central figure here is Jason Bateman's Judd, a man who is facing the prospect of divorce and fatherhood and perhaps a reacquainted love with childhood sweetheart Penny, played by Australia's new favourite Rose Byrne. Judd's arc is so utterly predictable and by the numbers that any hope Leave had of breaking the mould is shattered and it doesn't help also that Bateman continues to be one of the most frustrating and unoriginal actors of the current generation. Trying to enliven and invigorate proceedings here is a raft of supports that on paper should've been an automatic win but again don't at all gel due to an awkward tone and plot. From Jane Fonda's plastic surgery loving matriarch Hillary, Tina Fey's troubled sister Wendy, Adam Driver in yet another film where he plays Adam Driver and even Justified's Timothy Olyphant as brain damaged Horry, this is one family you'll be glad to see disappear into the credits.This is Where I Leave You has some moments, there are laughs and a few nice ponderings upon life, love and all in between yet it's so unappealingly unoriginal that it's very hard to recommend. When you can't pinpoint a reason for a film coming to fruition, whether it be a comedy, drama or anything else in the long line of genres you know that the film missed the mark, This is Where I Leave You misses the mark and misses it badly, in its fruitless struggle to make us care.2 baby monitors out of 5

Whilst this may look like a smart comedy on the outside, all This Is Where I Leave You eventually becomes a clichéd rom-com with added drama. The film fails to bring any real originality to movie world, being overly sappy, telling retired jokes and sticking to a predictable story. Whilst at first I thought I could get passed the initial clichés, they just continued to pile on me in this unrelenting struggle to get me to like something that has been done over and over again. This Is Where I Leave unforgivably fails to give any individuality to its story. It's the typical story arch from a thousand other comedy's, beginning with heart break, realisation and then all rounded triumph over the defeat.