Men, Women & Children Reviews

To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since I have a weak spot for Jason Reitman, I was quite eager to check it out. Well, following the rather disappointing ‘Labor Day’, at least, Reitman didn’t waste much time to come up with a new directing effort but, unfortunately, it didn’t turn out to be much better than his previous movie, I’m afraid. The first issue was that the various scenes involving the Voyager space probe with the lovely voice of Emma Thompson were just so pretentious and didn’t add anything really interesting. Then, showing all these social media screens and windows might have seemed to be clever. However, the whole concept (even though we can virtually connect with anyone on Earth within seconds, we don’t seem to be able to have a normal conversation with the people physically right next to us) has been done before and this movie didn’t do anything really interesting with it. Eventually, the biggest problem was, in my opinion, the fact that there were just too many characters and sub-plots involved. It’s too bad because, in fact, most of these stories were actually not bad at all (I enjoyed above all the romance involving Ansel Elgort and Kaitlyn Dever) but none of them had enough space and time to be properly developed and, as a result, they all turned out to be rather half-baked. At least, it was refreshing to see Adam Sandler in a movie which wasn’t completely lame. Anyway, to conclude, even if I’m not sure if it was Jason Reitman’s weakest movie so far and it wasn’t far from it, in spite of its flaws, I still think it is worth a look though.