Review of This Is Where I Leave You (2014) by Reece L — 20 Nov 2014
With "This is Where I Leave You", Shawn Levy has created a formless, saccharine, tonally-jarring, and aggressively mediocre mess, working from a script filled with groan-worthy lines ("anything happens all the time" being the worst offender) tied to the thinnest of premises.
What's astounding is something so sanitary and inoffensive could even be produced with a cast this incredible; Tina Fey, the comedy titan, is reduced to blandly delivering idiotic platitudes about life while Connie Britton (Mrs.
Coach Taylor, for christ's sake), Jason Bateman, the lovely Kathryn Hahn, Adam Driver, Rose Byrne, Jane Fonda (among others) are stuck with delivering variations of the same joke demanded by their individual one-note characters.
In the right hands and a revised script, this could've been a force of a film, but Levy's ineptitude makes it nearly unwatchable.
This review of This Is Where I Leave You (2014) was written by Reece L on 20 Nov 2014.
This Is Where I Leave You has generally received mixed reviews.
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