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While We're Young Reviews
10 years old and director Noah Boaumbach succeeds making a film about being very young, being very old and being in-between Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts are fine with just being married and having no kids yet when they bump into a 20-something couple they are comfortable with feeling like their old selves again no one's ever too old or too young to enjoy themselves there are perks to being 25 vice versa 44 yet both come with the ups and downs sometimes age sneaks up on us when we least expect it as well the ending is quite adorable I'll say and immediately evokes the notion of being young one second then transitioning to an adult
Middle-aged couple Josh (Ben Stiller) and Cornelia Srebnick (Naomi Watts) are filmmakers living in a shaky marriage in New York City. Josh has spent the last 10 years struggling on the post-production of his documentary film about leftist intellectual Ira Mandelstam while not letting his producer wife help him with the project. After finishing a lecture at the college where he teaches, Josh is approached by Jamie (Adam Driver) and Darby Massey (Amanda Seyfried), a young millennial couple who invite him and Cornelia out to dinner. Jamie claims to be a fan of Josh's work and the works of his accomplished documentary filmmaker father-in-law, Leslie Breitbart (Charles Grodin). Josh is immediately awestruck by Jamie and Darby's non-conservative outlook on life as he and Cornelia begin spending more and more time with them, joining in on their bohemian lifestyle... Rotten Tomatoes consensus is "Poignant and piercingly honest, While We're Young finds writer-director Noah Baumbach delivering some of his funniest lines through some of his most relatable characters." Peter Debruge of Variety wrote: "Though While We’re Young is primarily a comedy—and a very funny one at that, managing to be both blisteringly of-the-moment and classically zany in the same breath—Baumbach has bitten off several serious topics, for which laughter serves as the most agreeable way to engage." Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote: "If While We’re Young hadn’t gone quite so broad at the finish line, it would be a contender for my favorite movie of the still-young year." Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter called it a "mostly engaging but only fitfully inspired serio-comedy." (Via Wikipedia) Noah Baumbach continues to deliver kitchen sink realism and "While We're Young" points to that stagnant feeling you might end up in during your middle age, the feeling of being stuck in your everyday, and life just moves on but you are not really moving along with it. And then this moment of clarity check emerges and you jump on it to see where it leads. Then again it might not lead to what you thought... With that said there's clear touchpoints in the film that you can recognise yourself in. The ensemble cast of Stiller, Watts, Driver and Seyfried are all great, but at the same time it feels like all of them always seems to play the same character. Particularly Ben Stiller... "While We're Young" engages, but it also carries this flatlined feeling with no real highs. It's a bit blend and a bit boring to be honest. But, still worth a watch.
This was a very good movie. Funny was Adam driver and Ben stiller. Tim Treakle
I’ve never wanted to write a review before. This movie started out interesting but shifting into a movie about betrayal and generational divides was a betrayal to itself.
Some funny moments, but I thought there would be more of a plot twist or revelation, but the movie fizzles out.
Sometimes the dialogue is a little too obvious, especially when Baumbach's already made his point quite clear. However, he is still able to find all those great little awkward gems of humor and like his last film he seems to be finding more positivity in his characters.
While not Noah Baumbach's finest work, it has his tell tale fingerprints all over it and that can only be a positive thing. The performances of all the actors involved makes this movie worth seeing for that reason alone.
Some strong work by its cast but it just comes off uncomfortable.
Life may seem at times like a set-up. Coincidences that aren't. People that fake their way to what they want. As a documentary filmmaker with certain sensibilities about truth, that can be a problem. That is problem for Josh Srebnick, played by Ben Stiller. He gets played and the rest of the world, including his father-in-law, a renowned documentary filmmaker, sees things differently. An interesting film.
If you can relate to a pair of married forty-something-year-olds (Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts) struggling to come to terms with their slow slide into middle-age, you'll probably enjoy Noah Baumbach's While We're Young. Similarly, if you can relate to a pair of married twenty-something-year-olds (Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried) who believe in self-entitlement and the fact that the world is their oyster, you'll also probably enjoy the movie. Otherwise, it's a bit of a crapshoot. Like all of Baumbach's movies, it's got some snappy dialogue, interesting characters and nice set pieces. On the other hand, the interesting characters also tend to be pretentious and condescending. Clearly, While We're Young is a love it or hate it affair. Take your pick.
I gotta go with your friend here, Josh. You are just too old to be wearing hipster hats. While We're Young is an endlessly relatable comedy about that invisible line, the tipping point where you go from young to not-so-young. Where you finish your putt and all of a sudden you're on the back nine. It's got a solid cast, a series of funny characters, clever dialogue, and isn't afraid to add a little depth or poignancy to its narrative. The only reason I rate it (relatively) low is that the film is all of those nice things mostly in the first half, as the plot progresses we get drawn more into the obsessiveness of Stiller's Josh and a treatise on honesty and truth in both film and reality (which serves a larger theme on generational disconnect), but maybe Baumbach should have take a note out of his own script and edited that part down like a certain segment on Turkish politics. It may dive deeply into our protagonist's insecurities and offer the contrast that the film needs from a narrative perspective, where the world has shifted to the point that he no longer seems to understand it, but it comes off as a pretty stark tonal shift, particularly when the first half is so funny, particularly in its slightly morbid way of reiterating that 'everything you know will change'. That, and the script really does prioritize Stiller and Driver over Watts and Seyfried, who are never written out of the story completely but definitely have less and less to do as time goes one. (3/5)
A great movie, you'll have to watch it more than once to really appreciate it
Noah Baumach sforna una commedia in grado di toccare diversi argomenti, tutti assolutamente interessanti e differenti tra di loro. Nella prima parte la sceneggiatura racconta di una coppia di quarantenni a disagio con le coppie della loro età, che trovano rifugio in una giovane coppia di ragazzi con cui trovano diversi interessi in comune; tutte le tematiche trattate sono assolutamente condivisibili pur non avendole vissute in prima persona. Dal momento della cerimonia mistica, il film cambia totalmente faccia, abbandonando i dilemmi della vita di coppia, per concentrarsi sul rapporto che diventa via via conflittuale tra i due protagonisti maschili Stiller e Driver. Qui qualche forzatura la si trova, e il finale è volutamente calcato, forse troppo rispetto all'equilibrio per cui si era contraddistinto il film. Peccato non aver approfondito maggiormente i personaggi femminili. Attori strepitosi.
Porque tanto odio, en serio, creo que me resulto una película curiosa, Ben Stiller se luce en su actuación y logra ser lo suficientemente interesante para seguirla
It's not as good as The Squid & The Whale, but it is another good example of what Baumbach likes to do... A show of honestly written, and well-directed characters who tell a story that hankers after youth and associated freedoms, whilst at the same time aspiring to be more 'adult'. All of them (all the while) battle to be different, 'better', emboldened, enlightened and needed, but come to a place that shows they are who they are, and the strengths they have individually, enhance what they share with those closest to them
Ben Stiller is often playing the same role but gets by here. With a few exceptions, the rest of the cast is sufficient for a good drama about friendship.
Energetic and fast-paced, While We're Young is a pleasant little movie about generational gaps and dictating your life, irregardless of what those around you say or do.
While i understood what they were trying to do with this middle-aged couple in the story, it just seemed quirky & ridiculous and I didn't really connect with any of the characters