After forty or so minutes of wallowing and soul bearing, the movie moves out of narrative stall with Nick deciding to hold a yard sale once upon a time life dvd of all his possessions and start over, but by then it’s all over. Almost. The only thing that stops this whole sorry tale from completely falling on its sad-sack face is Will Ferrell. He is always watchable and like his fellow comedy stars Bill Murray and Jim Carrey before him, he shows that there’s some serious dramatic chops beneath The Funny. It’s a damn shame that the movie doesn’t take a leaf out of Ferrell’s book and wrong foot us some Timmy Time DVD way but instead Rush just dishes us nothing but a stand issue IndieWood movie – A heart-aching dramatic premise spiked with Quirkiness: Check! A Plinky Plonky Alt Country soundtrack: Check! A motley assortment of oddball and damaged supporting characters played by recognisable Hollywood character actors: (namely Michael Peña, Rebecca Hall, Laura Dern and the ever-entertaining Stephen Root) Check!
Though I really enjoyed Ferrell’s The Walking Dead Season 2 DVD Box Set likable and deceptively nuanced performance, I left feeling bludgeoned by a movie over-earnest in emotion, artless in its cliches and feeling more depressed than impressed.