Saturday, March 27, 2010

If it's about Gen X

It'll probably stay on the big screen for a week and then go right to DVD.
In an early scene in "Greenberg," Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller) is at a pool party with all his 40ish friends and their kids. "All the men are dressed as children, and all the children are dressed as superheroes," he observes.

Of course, we all dress ourselves aspirationally. The kids want to be Batman, and their dads want to be 12 again.

"Greenberg" doesn't address this wistfulness for lost youth as baldly as say, "Hot Tub Time Machine," but writer-director Noah Baumbach is hilariously acute in his observation of Generation X in the early autumn of its years.

3 comments:

Bag Blog said...

Stiller is not my favorite anyway.

Kath said...

BB, I agree. There's just something off about him -- I don't know exactly what it is, but ...

Wek said...

Not a huge fan of his, except for Something About Mary. One of the great funny movies ever.