It's officially Summer now, my favorite season of the year. Mine isn't looking to be very special, but I'll enjoy it nonetheless. I finally got to see Jeff, Who Lives At Home this week, since it came out on DVD/BluRay. I didn't get a chance to see it in theaters as I live in the Midwest and am a busy man. The movie was very enjoyable as I wanted it to be. If you don't know anything about it, it was made by the Duplass brothers who made Cyrus with Jonah Hill and John C. Reilly. One of brothers is also starring in this summer's Safety Not Guaranteed which I'm looking forward to seeing.
Jeff, Who Lives at Home stars Jason Segel and Ed Helms as brothers who have nothing in common. Segel plays Jeff, who has no job and still lives with his mom and believes in fate and following the signs life sends you to get where you're supposed to be. Ed Helms' character thinks he has it all together with his job and wife and his new Porsche. It turns out neither of them quite have it all together. It was a highly enjoyable film about different kind of people and learning to work together and respect each other. The movies also features Susan Surandon as the mother of the two, and how she deals with getting older and her sons growing up and not being the perfect lovable tikes they were when they were younger.
I also recently saw the movie Goon, which was written by Jay Baruchel (Knocked Up, She's Out of My League). It was a delightful movie about hockey. I'm not a huge hockey fan, as my favorite sport is basketball and I'm usually following the NBA while the NHL season is happening. The movie centers around a guy, Doug (played by Sean Willam Scott (American Pie, Role Models)), who is a bouncer, goes to a hockey game with his friend and ends up fighting a player who charges into the crowd after some trash talking from his friend (Baruchel). After the fight, he's contacted by a minor league hockey team and gets added to the team as an enforcer even though he doesn't know how to skate or anything. His parents don't approve of what he's doing, and there's a glimpse into the future of what he could become in a character played by Liev Shreiber. It's a good movie with good humor and a little heart.
