Movie Reviews for Me and You and Everyone We Know

Me and You and Everyone We Know

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Movie Reviews of Me and You and Everyone We Know

Movie Review: miserable people with miserable lives
Summary: 1 Stars

Others have found this movie intriguing if melancholy. I found it totally miserable as well as exploitative. It has that "indie" feel about it with characters that are supposed to be "quirky" and a little off-center. In this case, they are so far off center as to be dangerously deranged. The "hero" celebrates his divorce by setting his own hand on fire. Nice! His neglected kids, one a young teen and the other barely out of kindergarten, get involved in sex chat rooms with deviant adults. The "heroine" is supposed to be a talented performance artist but when we get to see her art, it turns out to be garbage. She falls for the hero for no apparent reason. He brushes her off; she persists and they end the movie clasped in an embrace that looked to me like the grip of a python around its prey.

Movie Review: Don't watch with your family
Summary: 5 Stars

A great and extremely quirky movie, but makes for awkward times with a family. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Movie Review: ;;;;....;;;;,,,,
Summary: 3 Stars

This film reminded me quite a bit of "Little Miss Sunshine" without the spunk. Instead of relentless positivism, the characters in M&Y&EWK all display a hunger, a yearning for love and a paralyzing uncertainty born of repeated disappointment. The people are the same unpredictable and mildly-agreeable misfits as "Sunshine" but the film itself is considerably more somber.

There are moments of unanticipated wonder in the film, and although somber the pace never drags so I found it quite easy to endure the overlaid sadness. Every actor is also quite good. The two little boys in particular are scene stealers in every frame they're in, and could've inhabited much larger parts. In the final analysis though the film has "Sundance eccentricity" in its genes as if written to a formula calculated to win awards in Utah.

Movie Review: Not an instant classic, but a great effort and worth a look
Summary: 3 Stars

I had mixed feelings about this one. Maybe a second screening is in order.

I can say this much: it's different. The problem is, any many points, it seemed like it was trying to be. It comes off as contrived at times. I would even go as far as saying it had forced "American Beauty" qualities, from the standpoint of trying to capture the essence of life, especially in the forms of human relationships.

The biggest problem for me is that I really didn't feel like I went anywhere with these characters. The only character I felt any sense of growth with was the 6 year old. Everyone else just kind of seemed to be part of random and strange relationships, mostly tied together through the exploration of sex or intimacy, but not in ways one might expect. While I enjoyed most of what I saw, I felt little attachment to any of them. But I came out of it being forgiving of that, because well, I WAS entertained for the most part and that's the best you can hope for in a movie these days.

The scenes are very fresh and mostly entertaining. There's some good humor, symbolism and uniqueness to the settings and circumstances. It's not over the top or grotesque. It has a more simple and quiet tone. There's also a modern edge, which will appeal to many young people.

In the end, I really admire the effort here. While I felt this film was thin in respects to direction and purpose, I would certainly be curious to see the upcoming work from Miranda July.