Our Idiot Brother
Nice comedy about fraternal relations which are not always in good shape, “Our Idiot Brother” attracted by the quality of its interpretation rather than the depth of the topics discussed. Ideal for having a smile hung for 90 minutes.
Ned (Paul Rudd) is a naive man who is often in trouble. After a stay in prison, he visits his three sisters inadvertently destroying their quality of life. Overnight, Liz (Emily Mortimer) has problems with her husband (Steve Coogan), Miranda (Elizabeth Banks) just to finish her journalistic article and Natalie (Zooey Deschanel) has questions about her future.
An elephant in a china shop. The image is overused but it applies well to this film by Jesse Peretz (“The Castle”, “The Ex”). There is a hero too nice and friendly – idiot as his entourage – which puts everyone into trouble by telling them their truths. Without express, of course, since it can not hurt a fly. A personage that seems to emanate old American films of the years 1940 and that carries here the traits of Paul Rudd. An indisputable artistic choice as the actor knows the registry and that explores the role with a constant good humor, however, taking care not to overdo it.
Facing him are very good actors who play with pleasure and delight of things a little too schematically. There’s always just outraged mother Emily Mortimer and Elizabeth Banks surprising a woman who thinks only of work. Then there’s Zooey Deschanel, which would melt any iceberg with her eyes of fire, Steve Coogan would be able to laugh a rock and Adam Scott a tongue-in-cheek one day to be a very big star. A sincere and always credible distribution, a bet which was be won.
Despite some excesses and sentimental scenes where the drama is reluctant to take its rightful place, it is indeed a comedy. Step one where the viewer laughs at deployed throat, but that where the accumulation of gags eventually make effect. The humor is usually subtle, not too vulgar, emerging situations and misunderstandings. The irrevocable love to a dog sometimes incomprehensible reactions of the protagonist, to secrets that have proved hazardous to light. Nothing fancy on the menu if it is this sense of well-being, tranquility, which is favored by a production fluid unfortunately uneven pace and nice choice of music including songs from Willie Nelson.
In the demonstration that in the explanation, in the sequence of fun numbers in the foundations of the family seeds, “Our Idiot Brother” is a feature film well temperate, irresistible and somewhat futile, who has no other artistic claim than to spend a good time. If it works (and this is the case), then that’s all that matters.
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