LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Judd Apatow's "Funny People" starred Adam Sandler as George Simmons,
a once-dynamic stand-up whose comic mojo has grown bloated and blunted
after starring in a series of hit movies and ensconcing himself in a
luxurious mansion.
Apatow's latest,
"This Is 40" - about the financial and romantic foibles of a well-off
couple hitting a milestone birthday - feels like George might have
written it, or at least directed it.
The bawdy wit and
crisp dialogue that were the hallmark of Apatow's "Knocked Up" (of which
this is a quasi-sequel) and "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" are still very
present, but the conflicts feel so cushy, so first-world, that one gets
the impression that the filmmaker is losing touch with life as it is
lived outside of Brentwood.
Not that the
wealthy and the privileged can't have problems of their own, or can't be
the subjects of drama, but when characters
who drive BMWs, hang pricey contemporary art throughout their spacious
house, go on spa weekends, cater lavish parties and have a seemingly
endless supply of Sprinkles cupcakes in their kitchen, it's a little
hard to be sympathetic when those same characters wail about their money woes.
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