Away We Go
Rating = B
The critics are all over the map
about this movie — some hate it, and some thinks it's pretty good.
The problem may be that it's about a couple who nice people and we
are so unused to seeing nice people in movies that we think it's
unrealistic, bland to the point of being uninteresting, or that these
people look down their noses at us lesser people with complicated
lives. There is also a theatrical quality to the film that adds to
the non-realism but works, I think, in telling the story. Although
they make enough money to get along, the couple are stuck in their
poor-student lives and with their image of being dependent on his
parents or other relatives or friends. The movie is the story of
them getting unstuck. It starts out being very funny and gets more
melancholy as it goes along, leading to a potentially happy but quiet
ending.
[2009-07-22]