Wanderlust

If you never watched Dinner For Schmucks, my advice is you should rent it. I just love comedies made with odd characters, and here Steve Carell delivered a very unique personality, with an obsession of stuffed dead mices. Paul Rudd, who lately been in a lot of comedies, seem to continue with this genre, with different results. This time around, he teams up with Jennifer Aniston and Malin Åkerman. Will Wanderlust give us a positive lust for more, or is this as stiff as former Centerpartiet´s leader Anders Flanking´s speaches?

George ( Paul Rudd ) and Linda ( Jennifer Aniston ) is a hard working married couple, who purchase a micro-loft in New York. Suddenly both George and Linda are out of work, and they are forced to sell their apartment. The couple decide to travel towards Georgia, to live with George´s brother Rick ( Ken Marino ) and his wife Marisa ( Michaela Watkins ). After a long drive, Linda asks George to stop at a breakfast hotel named Elysium. A naked man runs straight infront of them, and take them both by surprise. But this is just the start, here at Elysium, lifestyle has a completely different meaning than George and Linda are used too, and they like it. Here you can feel free to do what you like. Since Rick and Marisa are waiting for them to arrive, they have to leave Elysium. But things dont´work out as they thought with George´s brother, so they decide to take off towards Virginia, back to the free open minded family. But what seemed to be so perfect, may not be just what it looks like in real life.

Personally, i have to say i am not a very big Jennifer Aniston fan. Some of her movies are alright, while other ones are...terrible. So, seeing her performance in Wanderlust, i can´t say my personal opinion about her changes that much. She still does the same thing basically, being the hot girlfriend, who says what she thinks. Wanderlust have some good comic points, about why you don´t have to live in a certain way to be accepted, or that money is not the most important thing in the world. It´s just too bad some of these important messages are lost on the way of the script. I will admit i laughed a few times, especially when Wayne The Nudist likes to be close to George, even in the morning with his dick close to his face. Paul Rudd tries to be funny too often, there is actually one scene where he talks about cock all the time, that it get´s boring. Overall, Wanderlust could have been much funnier with a better script. But check out Alan Alda as the hippie leader, he is actually pretty good.

Rating: DD