Sunday, November 8, 2009

DVD Review: "MOVING MCALLISTER" Score C--

This lame attempt at a comedy road trip film falls into the crevasse of unfunny-over-trying slacker wanna be hip character film. The non-existent plot of a mail room boy who has to deliver a box from his Miami to LA to impress his law firm CEO. Also he has to pick up the CEO's "wild" niece and drop her off in LA too. Oh and now we are all set for a wacky cross country adventure. Throw in Jon Header as a slacker hitch hiker that joins the ride. The conventions of what the characters all do and their motivations make little sense The lead in 5days will take the Bar Exam and yet takes the job to drive to LA from Miami and get back. The CEO doesn't even give him enough money to rent the truck. The trippy dream/drug sequences are thrown in for whatever. He falls in love in the short 5 days. The CEO who never knew this kid in the first place was setting him up with his niece, the box only had the kid's own shoe in it, he misses his Bar Exam. Its all over the place, and not a cohesive or funny road trip (gross random things are thrown in here to try and get a laugh...they don't). Skip it.

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