Since I'm on the verge of not being much of a youngin' anymore myself, I took a particular interest in this story.
Early on we get a fair idea of what it is to be elderly in a fast moving, youth obsessed society that basically treats it's elderly with condescending and patronizing attitudes at best.
That's as edgy as it gets. After around twenty minutes, the plot becomes quickly deluded with Luke-warm silliness that weighs in about one or two rungs above fart jokes. The humor is contrived and not funny.
Rather than explore the issues of aging more deeply (and yes, I'm well aware it was supposed to be a comedy), what we get is a buffoonish parade of supporting rolls around our central characters, from a bank manager who pees his pants to a variety of other morons not even worth mentioning.
Veteran actors Cain, Freeman, Arkin, Margret and Lloyd are completely diminished by the constant childish antics more befitting of a long forgotten made for TV movie-of-the-week.
If you still sleep with a teddy bear, you might like it.
If not, you'll find it as I did: Infantile and painfully dumb.
Completely forgettable.
Early on we get a fair idea of what it is to be elderly in a fast moving, youth obsessed society that basically treats it's elderly with condescending and patronizing attitudes at best.
That's as edgy as it gets. After around twenty minutes, the plot becomes quickly deluded with Luke-warm silliness that weighs in about one or two rungs above fart jokes. The humor is contrived and not funny.
Rather than explore the issues of aging more deeply (and yes, I'm well aware it was supposed to be a comedy), what we get is a buffoonish parade of supporting rolls around our central characters, from a bank manager who pees his pants to a variety of other morons not even worth mentioning.
Veteran actors Cain, Freeman, Arkin, Margret and Lloyd are completely diminished by the constant childish antics more befitting of a long forgotten made for TV movie-of-the-week.
If you still sleep with a teddy bear, you might like it.
If not, you'll find it as I did: Infantile and painfully dumb.
Completely forgettable.