Outdated Movie Review: Away We Go

I have been way to excited to watch this movie. There are several reasons for this.

It was co-written by Dave Eggers (who made me laugh out loud at his mother's cancer in A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and made me care about rwandans in What is the What? ).

It was directed by Sam Mendes (who made American males simultaneously more and less gay with American Beauty).

The preview looked very charming.

I am very gay.


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I dragged ET #2 along with me as a prop. It's one thing to want to see a movie like this. It's quite another to go by yourself and break down in tears in a theater as a baby is being born on screen.

The movie is legimately awesome. Early only Maya Rudolph asks Jim Alpert "Are we screw ups?". The resign themselves to finding the perfect place to raise their gestating baby. Their travels take them from Pheonix to Tuscon to Madison to Montreal. Along the way they size up their friends and loved ones as potential examples of successful families. The entire thing would be maudlin if not for the pitch perfect absurdity of several of the people they meet. Allison Janney is hilarioius. Her laugh is disturbingly similar to my godmother's laugh, which for no apparent reason made the whole thing very authentic. There is also some hilarity with a stroller and Maggie Gyllenhall but that's all I'll say about that.

The movie is great. You should watch it. Please be sure to smile the whole way.

There was one joke that looks like it got chopped up in the script to the point where it was lost. Two completely different characters under their breath somewhat accuse Jim Alpert of being afraid of something like the rest of America...it was not well placed or called out in anyway so after the second time i was like like "that's weird". Please explain it to me if it makes more sense when you watch it.