The main problem with Larry Crowne, is that Tom Hanks and his co-writer Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) have made a promising premise and forced into the boundaries of a generic model of romantic comedy. College life, as shown Crowne Larry, is bright and shiny, with total strangers who immediately BFFs in another clean and give each other haircuts, hours after they met. This is wrong situations like this that Larry Crowne swallow hard to do well in romantic comedies. Larry in the world claim Crowne squeaky clean, even the idea of losing your home to foreclosure is a joyful event. Crowne Larry works in a world that feels totally out of reality, and with the set-up of a man suddenly out of work in itself as a fraud, if the consequences of the situation is so frivolous.
History
Hanks plays Larry Crowne, an employee of the U-Mart is proud of his work. He is punctual, friendly and playful, and has employed more than half a dozen awards to its credit month. Called in the cafeteria one day to get what he believes is a further certificate EOTM, personnel managers and other bosses let him know that although it is an excellent employee, despite the fact, has it for years, they let him go, because he never went to school. Excuse me? Vardalos and Hanks is the best you a reason Larry could come give Crowne trunk?
After an unsuccessful search for a new way to pay bills, Larry returned to college, where, of course, faces that he as a consultant, who immediately takes him to a public class room type. Because, of course, if you lose your job, what would be the best place to start to get back on track to a job that will allow you to pay your bills, right? Larry comes to class a little late, upset the teacher, Mercedes (Roberts), they had only 9 students take the 10 required which they could cancel the class 8 hours meant she would not mind to teach anyway. Let us interject here that Mercedes spent "after school hours trying to drink and talk with their porn-surfing at home working man (Bryan Cranston), as early in the morning are often the consequences of alcohol consumption.
From the classroom, Larry immediately becomes friends with a cutie in his early 20s, driving a motor scooter, and soon joined with his pack scooter. She takes him under his wing and gives him a kind of makeover (which, frankly, makes him ridiculous, but it will look cool). So now he's hanging with a new band and it turns out it's hot for teacher. Why? For it is Julia Roberts. There is no other logical reason for her character to want to with this bitter, personality challenged, distant educators.
The interim report
Hanks and Roberts are good actors, and between them they have 60 + years worth of experience working in feature films. Not everyone of their films was a gem, not all of their films can be used as an example, why are they so popular among moviegoers and Oscar worthy presents. Larry Crowne certainly not marked as a moment in a bright and brilliant career. Hanks is particularly responsible for the lack of authentic characters from the film (as it is a co-author of the screenplay), and Roberts does not help Mercy play unattractive as one-dimensional love story. In addition, Tom Hanks and Roberts have zero chemistry to make a scene in which they both flirt awkward and painful to watch.
Supporting players - with the exception of Cedric the Entertainer and Taraji Henson P as Larry Lottery winner keeps neighbors yard sales - better than the son of three members of the pack formed as secondary characters much more interesting as the headliner. Gugu Mbatha-Raw plays Talia, riding scooters, a student at the Free University in mind that Larry and the tour is in its transition from a job, divorced man who wades in water in their mortgage at a hip, student-People to win the university, in a position to the attention of a married teacher. Mbatha-Raw performance surpasses that of his colleagues known cast, and if Tom Hanks had moved more weight to Talia, he would have given the public a film much more entertaining. Rami Malek, co-stars as one of the 10 participants in public space Mercy, a sign Spicoli-ish (minus the drugs), the much more interesting and concrete, if Hanks and Roberts is one note characters. And last but not least, George Takei as a teacher bizarre economy gets the biggest laughs simply by cracks.
Co-author, producer, director and starring Tom Hanks, Larry Crowne is a missed opportunity for a film. Hanks and co-writer Nia Vardalos take a timely subject - the loss of a job due to downsizing and the subsequent search for a new career - and go everywhere with him.
Hanks another tour and was behind the camera as a director of a movie 15 years ago with the comedy That Thing You Do! Although this was not the best film of 1996, a film much more fun than Larry Crowne. Crowne an effort to lower Larry Hanks with artificial characters and set-ups filled. It can satisfy most avid Hanks and / or Roberts fans, but it's a marshmallow of a movie - all fluff with no real content. Larry Crowne was produced by Tom Hanks and PG-13 for brief strong language and sexual content. Read also : Romance Movie 2012 - The Vow.
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