Just Add Water
Take one part dreamer, one part hero and...
Welcome to Trona, California - a dead-end desert town for people with dead-end lives. And no one is going nowhere faster than Ray Tuckby (Dylan Walsh, TV's Nip/Tuck), a mild-mannered underground parking lot attendant saddled with a neurotic shut-in wife and an ill-mannered, sexually-frustrated son (Jonah Hill, Superbad). That is, until Ray's life totally bottoms out. Now, with the help of a childhood sweetheart and a concerned stranger (Danny DeVito), Ray is about to take back his life - and his town - in this offbeat comedy that proves it's never too late to grow - even if you're all grown up.
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the first half kept my interest - tbird
the second half of the movie, turned into a sort of slap stick, hubris film with a neat happy ending. i thought the visual depiction of a dead end town littered with garbage was very accurate, sad and funny.the main actor was amazing. he is able to show a lot of expression without saying a word.i thought the film needed to keep it's serious side in order to really be fully sarcastic. the slap stick was too much, but overall an interesting film.Doesn't quite make it - MikeB
Is this movie a satire, comedy, vigilante, romance ...? It works for the first hour or so as a satire and then becomes a combination syrupy romance and revenge-vigilante movie.
Some of the acting is good - the male lead is, but the female grocery-girl love interest is simplistic. The dead-beats and loser-town America were well portrayed and this gave the movie some authenticity - the homes and interiors were certainly not taken from 'Town and Country'.
But when it's said and done the ending is a lame-brain fairy tale. Too bad because I did feel 'sometimes' that this film was going somewhere.
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the first half kept my interest - tbird
the second half of the movie, turned into a sort of slap stick, hubris film with a neat happy ending. i thought the visual depiction of a dead end town littered with garbage was very accurate, sad and funny.the main actor was amazing. he is able to show a ...Doesn't quite make it - MikeB
Is this movie a satire, comedy, vigilante, romance ...? It works for the first hour or so as a satire and then becomes a combination syrupy romance and revenge-vigilante movie.
Some of the acting is good - the male lead is, but the female grocery-girl ...