Long On Distance, Short On Laughs
Garrett (Justin Long) is a guy. He is just like any other guy. His relationship has ended, but he has another girl about ready to go home with him on the same night. That girl is Erin (Drew Barrymore). She is a girl; interning at a New York paper and about to head home to California. Six weeks is all they have, if they choose to take it.
As two kids that are infatuated with each other they make the best use of the six weeks together, but as its time to get separated by an entire country; they don’t know if they are ready to call it quits. In fact, it’s time to start the long-distance relationship.
Now with Erin living in California with her sister (Christina Applegate) and her husband (Jim Gaffigan) Garrett has to resort to phone calls with a three hour time difference. Easy for Erin, not so easy for Garrett, but it’s not only the time difference it’s the physical separation that wears on them. Visits can only happen so often, especially on a record company representative’s salary. They try everything imaginable, but is there a way to make this work? Do they want to make it work? Or is it time to move on?
This is an R Rated romantic comedy. There is a high probability of raunchy antics taking place at any given moment. Just witness the couple’s first chance to reunite in California. The dining room table is all kinds of defiled.
At times, the film is funny, it really is! Unfortunately, the funny is far and few between in a story that seems stretched to the ends of the earth, or at least the country.
I couldn’t accept Barrymore at all in her role as Erin. It just always seemed over the top and unnecessary. The characters seemed like they should have been much smarter and clever than they were portrayed.
I felt the film missed the golden opportunity to utilize Ron Livingston as Garrett’s boss. He sends them to cover the perfect assignment that could be wrapped in the film to a solid comic end.
Ok, as I said before…I laughed, I did! Unfortunately the laughs were far and few between. The film has got the long distance part down; it’s just short on laughs.
C
Going The Distance
New Line Cinema
Director: Nanette Burstein
Cast: Drew Barrymore, Justin Long, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Christina Applegate, Jim Gaffigan
Rating: R for sexual content including dialogue, language throughout, some drug use and brief nudity.
Runtime: 109 minutes.
Garrett (Justin Long) is a guy. He is just like any other guy. His relationship has ended, but he has another girl about ready to go home with him on the same night. That girl is Erin (Drew Barrymore). She is a girl; interning at a New York paper and about to head home to California. Six weeks is all they have, if they choose to take it.
As two kids that are infatuated with each other they make the best use of the six weeks together, but as its time to get separated by an entire country; they don’t know if they are ready to call it quits. In fact, it’s time to start the long-distance relationship.
Now with Erin living in California with her sister (Christina Applegate) and her husband (Jim Gaffigan) Garrett has to resort to phone calls with a three hour time difference. Easy for Erin, not so easy for Garrett, but it’s not only the time difference it’s the physical separation that wears on them. Visits can only happen so often, especially on a record company representative’s salary. They try everything imaginable, but is there a way to make this work? Do they want to make it work? Or is it time to move on?
This is an R Rated romantic comedy. There is a high probability of raunchy antics taking place at any given moment. Just witness the couple’s first chance to reunite in California. The dining room table is all kinds of defiled.
At times, the film is funny, it really is! Unfortunately, the funny is far and few between in a story that seems stretched to the ends of the earth, or at least the country.
I couldn’t accept Barrymore at all in her role as Erin. It just always seemed over the top and unnecessary. The characters seemed like they should have been much smarter and clever than they were portrayed.
I felt the film missed the golden opportunity to utilize Ron Livingston as Garrett’s boss. He sends them to cover the perfect assignment that could be wrapped in the film to a solid comic end.
Ok, as I said before…I laughed, I did! Unfortunately the laughs were far and few between. The film has got the long distance part down; it’s just short on laughs.
C
Going The Distance
New Line Cinema
Director: Nanette Burstein
Cast: Drew Barrymore, Justin Long, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Christina Applegate, Jim Gaffigan
Rating: R for sexual content including dialogue, language throughout, some drug use and brief nudity.
Runtime: 109 minutes.
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