Review of The Joneses (2010) by Ross H — 01 Oct 2010

I must say this is a new idea in a movie. Let's put a make believe family together, move them to a new upscale neighborhood, give them new products from huge companies that aren't even out to the general public, show them off to their new neighbors to influence them to buy them and watch the profits soar for the companies who pay this other company who provides the fake families (who we later see are alll over the world) Everybody's happy right? Wrong! Of course wrong.

Especially wrong for the neighbor who's trying to keep up with the Joneses(!), and then there's the fake daughter (the beautiful Amber Heard) who's trying to get with her fake dad (David Duchovny), the fake mom (Demi Moore), who is also the head of household in the business of all of this.

Duchovny is the new guy in the company where this is his first job, his first family and his first experience. Everybody's got to meet a certain quota of sales or they will be replaced. Like I said interesting idea and a pleasant enough movie.

For the guys there's Heard and I've got to tell you Demi is looking great in this one as well. Not a bad choice if your options aren't many. Recommended.