Sometimes we do reckless things. Sometimes we say and do the wrong things. There is something in this drama, this melodrama, this imaginary comedy. Something's wrong. It changed and changed something in the future. But they say everything is done. . .
Very quiet for most of the story. Warm, lamp heroes, the story itself is greenhouse. It has everything we love. There are many social problems of our time. There is a miracle of life.
But there's a double feeling. The story is not suitable for family viewing. It has many slippery themes and episodes on the verge of foul. And there's something disgusting. And it feels like all this light bulbry is just for us to take something repulsive with the good.
But there are three parts to the film: we're introduced to everyone, we're shown the climax, and then they lead us to the end. And in general, the three parts compensate and complement each other, so in general there was a good movie, whole.
In my opinion, the topic of artificial insemination has not lost its relevance over the years. And now it is much more necessary than in those years. More and more women are giving birth to themselves.
Cassie has a best friend, Wally, with whom she shares all the news of her life. And she certainly told Wally that idea. Cassie does not get along with her personal life, but she wants a child, and decides to find a donor or in other words, a seed friend. Wally is clearly not fit for this role, as he is neurotic, and Cassie does not like it. In the role of a seed friend is Roland, who is ready to do this for the sake of money and family, but Wally is not enthusiastic about him, and during the party, at which everything should happen, he accidentally changes the seed of Roland to his own and forgets.
But after 7 years, he is forced to remember the whole course of events, as Cassie’s son reminds him of himself.
The film has a wonderful cast, and that applies to both the main characters and the secondary ones. Jennifer Aniston plays a sweet, kind Cassie. Who's tired of waiting for the one. She decides to do what she wants and most importantly for herself. Jason Bateman (Wally) plays an indecisive neurotic. It looks like it was created for him. The hero looks natural, no unnecessary compressions.
From the start, Wally's gaze is awe-inspiring to Cassie, but since they're friends, she certainly doesn't take him seriously. I love the way the movie develops the relationship between Cassie and Wally. We naturally see the development of events in which relationships grow from friendly to loving. I like the way love is expressed in the film, these are not intimate scenes, not verbally, but actions that Wally is ready for Cassie.
Good, romantic and the most important life film, which is enough jokes and touching moments. All the most important scenes are about Sebastian and Wally, and I want to highlight the scene of a conversation about a photo that can bring emotional people to tears. All the dialogue in the film is written with meaning.
The plot of the film is not new, but shot it interestingly. With this, each viewer can begin to compare themselves with the heroes of the film.
I recommend this movie, especially if you want to be romantic.
This film accurately shows the characters of two heroes, the older as a couple. And he, and she certainly to the last, does not want to take responsibility. Both he and she are not ready to live for the other, but at some point they realize they have no other choice.
Do you want to see something much more vulgar than American Pie?
I will look at this film in three directions: melodrama, comedy and drama.
The romantic line has failed. The plot does not shine with originality, does not shine with the word “at all”. It's frankly far-fetched. The love of Wally and Cassie is suddenly sucked out of her finger. Romance stifles at every turn like an asthmatic old man. The strange friendship of two neurotics without any presuppositions and grounds turns into “love.”
Comedy may have happened, but it doesn't either. The vulgarity here reigns in every scene, every gesture. From the beginning, when Wally tries to show everyone a shot of her eggs and moves from stage to stage. What only one insemination party is worth. All this talk about a seed friend... Was that supposed to be funny? It's disgusting. The director’s attempts to impose sympathy for the heroes are disgusting, Cassie’s insemination parties, in honor of relationships, are disgusting. Already after the first minutes, I watched out of pure excitement - whether the writer could be more vulgar. And, oh yes, they always surprise you.
The drama didn't work. None of the heroes can empathize. Each of them so brazenly, unceremoniously and demandingly asks for support and acceptance that it repels.
Aniston is exactly the same here as in his other comedies. If you have seen one of her films, you can safely transfer her role to others. Actress of the same role.
Bateman talentedly portrays a neurotic, but you can not experience sympathy or sympathy for him.
The only thing that somehow keeps the picture afloat is the relationship between Wally and Roland. If the creators paid more attention to this line and reduced the presence of Aniston to a minimum, it could save the picture, but, alas, it is not possible.
As a result, in this romantic comedy, there is not a single episode where you can feel sorry or smile. I put three, because I anticipate that soon the creators of this picture will please us with something even more impressive.
3 out of 10
There are very successful American romantic comedies, in which every situation, event is perfect and you don’t ask yourself “What did I just see?” – you just enjoy watching. "More than a friend" - for all its comic, it looks more than serious. Of course, artificial insemination is no joke! There is more irony than the banal life joke. I spent the night watching this movie.
The charming Cassie (Jennifer Aniston) long ago recorded Wally (Jason Bateman) in the friendzone (as it is now fashionable and easy to say). Strong friendship is no longer afraid of anything. They calmly talk about any topic, up to the discussion of scrotum disease. But when it comes to artificial insemination, Cassie doesn't see her friend as a candidate, which poor Wally is, to put it mildly, angry about. And at a party in honor of this, he gets very drunk to, at least, somehow forget and get drunk. You should still watch the movie! Seven years from now, when Cassie, a single mother, returns to New York City with a son who is very smart and melancholic, we will see many pleasant and touching scenes. A child always needs both parents!
Are you having a boring night at home? Then bake croissants, make coffee with cream and enjoy watching a really serious comic situation. And perhaps be glad that in our country it is still fashionable to have children in the good old way.
More than a friend is positioned as another romantic comedy film that has a million analogues. I do not mean that the film is therefore not very good, and the fact that there are always analogues, but for some reason no one wants to invent anything new, recruiting only other actors and making a “different” story. The problem with such films is that the formula of this movie is not the best or the most interesting. Let their films look simple, but no aftertaste, and remember these films you are unlikely to want. Positioning itself as a comedy, "More than a friend" completely forgets about the existence of gags, jokes or funny references. As I understand it, the writers take the simplicity of the film for humor. Well, there's nothing to say. As expected for me, this film will not be something new in the genre: there are no interesting characters, no special drama (and even if there is, it is banal to the point of creeping), there is nothing new in terms of script, in terms of dialogue and everything else – too.
I don’t call these movies bad, but I don’t have the language to call them good, and I don’t think I’d recommend anything like that to any of my friends. Watching "More than a friend" and the like, one detail is immediately visible - laziness. Laziness, which is based on standardity and linearity, monotony and boredom. I’m sure such films will come out more and more often, because they are very popular, but I would really like the creators of these films to work hard and do something new, and not walk on a straight line until everyone gets tired of it. We can only hope that these films will improve.
More than a Friend is a funny American comedy with elements of drama and melodrama, which turned out to be very kind, positive and original. I liked the film for its pleasant atmosphere and the extraordinary story that we were shown so vividly and believably in this film. This comedy looks easy, and I would not say that it is disposable, I watched it a couple of times, and this movie I consider not bad, and it undoubtedly deserves attention and a positive assessment.
We see two best friends Wally and Cassie, and Cassie decides to get pregnant through artificial insemination, and we see a funny and interesting, cute story that has both humor and drama and happy ending.
American actress Jennifer Aniston I really like, because the star of the series “Friends” is a beautiful woman and an interesting, standing actress, and I always enjoy watching new films with her participation, and in this comedy she played well, and in the title role of the mother looked decent. Jen is a bright, clean and bright actress, and I love her and consider her one of the most prominent American actresses of our time. I never really liked Jason Bateman, but in this comedy he played well, and in the lead role he looked good, although if another actor played his role, maybe the film would look different, even better. Jeff Goldblum is a great actor who has acted in many worthwhile and worthy films, and in this comedy I was pleased to see him. I’ve loved Juliette Lewis for a long time and it’s always nice to see her in new, even smaller roles. Patrick Wilson is also an interesting actor and a charming man, and I also remember him in this comedy, even in a small role. I also really liked the boy who was Aniston’s son, he was so nice and sweet, and he can’t help but attract attention in this film.
American comedies are often stupid and empty, but I liked this comedy, there was something pure and interesting about it, although there is a bit of vulgarity, but I liked this film, and I consider More Than a Friend a good comedy. The film reveals the story of misunderstanding and mystery, a cute little boy and his perception of the world, funny situations and an interesting story that was created and brought to the big screen by excellent and pleasant world-class actors.
Once again, I am convinced that, having decided to watch the film with Jennifer Aniston, I will not be disappointed. Really making the choice between some horror and melodrama with Jen, I was very happy.
There's a lot of pluses in the movie. First of all, it looks in one breath. You absolutely do not feel how time passes, how the relationship between the main characters changes, how a boring boy turns into a sweet child, how everything becomes as you would like from the very beginning. Secondly: the actors are selected very successfully, because the role of office, desperate in life pessimist (well, let it be as he thought about himself - a realist) as no one fits Jason Bateman. The boy played by Thomas Robinson is adorable. I don’t think anyone at his age would have been able to do that. Thirdly, the storyline, although a little predictable, but still fully justified itself. I think there are a lot of lovers to see Jen as such a caring mom.
As for the disadvantages, it is that for too long, in my opinion, such bosom friends have not communicated. And that's clearly a blunder. Another: full access to the donor's "ingredient" in the bathroom. It certainly shouldn't be the same.
But despite these minor mistakes, I can confidently take responsibility for making sure the film will appeal to most viewers.
Rachel Green. To accuse Jennifer Aniston of monotony, exploitation of the eternal image of Rachel Green is pointless, since Jen plays herself from time to time, and in most cases the audience likes it. Can she go beyond the character of Friends? I doubt it would be good for her to do that. Are you familiar with the concept of American sweetheart? She’s a cute, cute and funny girl that you really want to fall in love with – she could go to school with you, live in the same yard, you can meet her in a diner or subway, and she won’t reject you like a glamorous diva with giant requests, because she’s looking for an ordinary guy like you. It is close to women, because it does not represent serious competition, and to men - because, taking into account adequate self-esteem, it is not so fruitless to dream about it than about a supermodel from the calendar. American sweetheart is Meg Ryan before The Dark Side of Passion, boxing ropes and all the schushers of the last few years, and since we're talking about Maggie, I'll say two things: Jen turned out to be wiser, returning, after “The Price of Infidelity” to the beaten track of lightweight melodramas, and as for the theme of friendship between a man and a woman, she exhausted herself after “Harry and Sally”, since it is impossible to say more + better about it.
Friends/lovers Cinema is very fond of exploiting this cliché - a man and a woman were friends for a long time, then Her awoke feelings to which He (due to natural retardation) did not respond; Desperate, she began to look for happiness on the side, and only when she saw her with someone else, he finally saw her, jumped up, confessed everything (necessarily in public!) and they were reunited. Here my left eyebrow is sceptically crawling up - let me doubt it. Relying on my own worldview, I can’t believe such a sudden epiphany on the part of any of the “friends”, because people, as you know, initially react to members of the opposite sex on a primitive, subconscious damage “I don’t want”, which means that both immediately know whether they smelled like sex or not. If they begin to communicate, then at least one of them has a red light bulb flashed, and he just waits for the white rabbit to fold his ears, because if both are sexually indifferent, who to communicate with?
So, one (suppose a man) lit up and pretends to be a friend, waiting for the apple to ripen. But the apple already knows for sure whether it will fall into the hands of this gardener or another, and therefore it makes no sense to delay such a wait-and-see pseudo-friendship. If the apple is waiting for it to be picked, and the mountain gardener goes around and taunts on abstract topics, the apple will wrinkle and quickly fall to the guy with a bigger shovel; and if the fruit does not see you as an object of sexual desire, you have nothing to catch now or in many years. A woman always knows with whom she will count the beams on the ceiling, and with whom - for no frills! And if you put a label, it is unlikely to change your mind, especially after many years of “friendship”. I have a couple of male "friends," we've known each other since freshman year, and whatever they have above or below the equator, I'm sure both then and now that I'm not sexually attracted to them. Otherwise, we would have had a “month of passion” in the asset, after which we would have safely fled, since such months always end on the initiative of one. With men in general, everything is simple: if they did not want, and then suddenly wanted a woman, it means that in personal terms they have hollow and drought, and next to someone swarming in a bra and turned up under the arm. Desperation is a lousy option; years of aging benefit only wines, and everything else sours, flies, dries. People who are not good enough to be a lover.
Now about the movie. The movie is dull. More precisely, the film fully corresponds to the inner world of the main character - neurasthenic-phlegmatic-hypochondriac and coward. Wally is afraid of everything, he doubts everything, he never takes risks, does nothing, lives on a rolled-in, floats with the flow, sees no joy in anything ... oh no, his only joy is to criticize others and always spoil someone’s holiday. He is boring, banal, prone to whining in the vest to the only friend (part-time boss), and I do not know what it could make Jenny after 13 years of friendship feel “energy” and chemistry. There was no push and presupposition, except that the loneliness and even greater mediocrity of another candidate, a single-celled donor climber with a smile, played into the hands. Desperation, despair... And in general, everything is somehow sluggish, gray and protracted, lifeless, insensitive. When someone is afraid of losing their chance, they fight, burn, get emotional, and certainly don’t want any more uncertainty. And then he said, he left, humbled himself; she left, thought, slowly returned. Where's the passion? Gust? Attraction? There is talk of obese ducks, lice, three-legged dogs waiting to be put to sleep, and doomed marriages, where the husband goes to work and the wife is drunk, washing jeans to a 15-year-old son who hates them both. Yeah, yeah.
The emotional charge of the picture is worth a lot. I understand the director’s desire to make the film as close as possible to real life, but not to the same depression! And the dialogue? As the Joker said, “I cry quietly from the inside, will you merge with me in weeping?” I'm sure those who remember the romantic comedies of the 90s will merge. What situations! What dialogue! I cry quietly from the inside... And this film, which does not contain a single funny, touching and hopeful moment, should warm me up on an autumn evening or support me in a difficult moment? And why, I ask you, the film omits extremely important plot fillings, in particular, the “friendship” of the main characters, or the romance of a girl with a donor climber? All this remained behind the scenes, and in front of our noses there are dry squeezes-thesis, to which we would never have come on our own. One good thing is a boy-Sebastian, who looks like six, but in fact sixty, but in the episode with photos he can not help but sympathize.
Bottom line: a gloomy, watery melodrama that you can watch, but do not want to review.
P.S. How scary is Juliette Lewis? It is clear that such girlfriends-scumbags are needed as a background on which the main character will look prettier and more moral, but... how terrible is Juliette Lewis.
P.P.S. Why didn't Viking impregnate a woman in the old-fashioned way? It is clear that Wally in this case it would be more difficult to replace the ingredient, but, it turns out, those two, wearing crowns, just secluded what he poured into a jar in her presence? Hmm. .
