An average movie

Nowadays, Tom Hanks doesn’t make many movies and he does direct even less features (it was his 2nd directing effort) so I thought I should check this one out. Honestly, I had a hard time to believe how underwhelming the whole thing was… Seriously, the whole thing did have some potential, especially considering the current state of our economy but the whole thing was seriously poorly written. I mean, the guy gets fired, his neighbor advices him to go to college, so far so good, but then he joins a scooter gang?!? Not only it wasn’t funny at all, but it was seriously tedious. Then, he gets a wardrobe makeover, a house makeover, and we are supposed to care? And I won’t even talk about the whole lame romantic plot about the main character falling in love with his teacher… They should have made a dark comedy or something like that but they seriously messed up the tone. The only thing I really enjoyed was the first scene involving Bryan Cranston. But, then, with his 2nd scene, they made sure we shouldn't care about him by making him a useless douche bag. To conclude, I actually think that my rating is pretty generous, it is a really weak comedy and it is not really worth a look, I’m afraid.

5/10