I think it is truly the mark of a great movie when you can go into it having heard great things, having expectations lifted and elevated, only for the film to still rise above that. This did that for me. I heard, from multiple sources, how good it was, but I wasn't expecting the quirky nature of it nor the reality. This falls into that short list of movies that feels as though it accurately depicts the awkwardness, the difficulties and the strains of teen life. It's weird, it's difficult, there are rules and there aren't rules and these kids each feel so real throughout it all. The self-awareness and the creativity used in the storytelling really adds something special and the gut punches each feel earned and honest, rather than some of the forced, insincere tripe we are subjected to elsewhere.
Really a solid experience which once again proves, above all else... Nick Offerman is amazing at all times. Oh, and Molly Shannon. Molly Shannon brings this weird energy with her to everything I've ever seen her in and somehow it's always perfect, yet she is not in a lot of stuff. I hope that's a decision on her part and not because people aren't casting her, because she has got some serious talent that I would not mind seeing more often.
Really a solid experience which once again proves, above all else... Nick Offerman is amazing at all times. Oh, and Molly Shannon. Molly Shannon brings this weird energy with her to everything I've ever seen her in and somehow it's always perfect, yet she is not in a lot of stuff. I hope that's a decision on her part and not because people aren't casting her, because she has got some serious talent that I would not mind seeing more often.