Away We Go (2009)
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Reviews Counted: 171
Fresh: 115 | Rotten: 56
Built on a set of quirks and charms that are as noticeable as they are interchangeable, Away We Go is a sweet but uneven road trip.
Average Rating: 6/10
Critic Reviews: 37
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 18
Built on a set of quirks and charms that are as noticeable as they are interchangeable, Away We Go is a sweet but uneven road trip.
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When slacker thirtysomething couple Burt (John Krasinski) and Verona (Maya Rudolph) discover that his parents are moving overseas, the duo -- who expect their first child in a few months -- set off on a cross-country tour to figure out where they should lay down some roots in Sam Mendes' poignant comedy Away We Go. They visit a number of different cities, and meet with a different friend or family member's family at each stop. Their hosts include a set of emotionally detached parents (Allison
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Cast
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John Krasinski
Burt -
Maya Rudolph
Verona -
Jeff Daniels
Jerry -
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Allison Janney
Lily -
Catherine O'Hara
Gloria -
Josh Hamilton
Roderick -
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Carmen Ejogo
Grace -
Melanie Lynskey
Munch -
Jim Gaffigan
Lowell -
Chris Messina
Tom -
Paul Schneider
Courtney -
Samantha Pryor
Ashley
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That every supporting character is depicted as insufferable or pitiable or both would be bad enough; what's worse is that the couple discover nothing about themselves that wasn't obvious from the opening.
Top CriticTerrific performances make this tender if slight little film worth the trip.
Away We Go makes a nice metaphor for a rootless, self-involved culture of parents trying to get it right and getting all the wrong advice as they do.
Rudolph lends depth and complexity to this otherwise facile story.
You may very well enjoy Away We Go more than I did. But rest assured that you will never love this movie as much as it loves itself.
While the rest of us have been sitting around contentedly with 3-D glasses on our faces, Sam Mendes has been quietly redefining the American family drama.
Really deserved to have a bigger following.
"Away We Go" shared the similarly episodic flutter of familial comedy with "Flirting with Disaster," but evolved to something more than a screwball finish. Ultimately, home represents only all that we can control of the sadness that surrounds us.
Delicado, inteligente e sensível como o casal principal, este talvez seja o mais coeso dos trabalhos de Mendes ao substituir seu cinismo e pessimismo habituais por uma visão doce e otimista da natureza humana.
Nails the melancholy state of being both unsure about living in this world and essentially hopeful about it.
Despite his reputation as a visually stylish director, Sam Mendes has taken a very low-key approach to Away We Go and by doing so has made his best film since American Beauty.
Sam Mendes' Away We Go is two thirds of a good film. Many good laughs. A decent concept. No follow through.
Mendes paints in broad strokes, but in this case he seems little more than an interpreter of his screenwriters' obsession with innocence.
An unconvincing premise is turned into a must-see heartwarming romantic comedy.
Away We Go is merely a bemused sigh of relief. It is not the most memorable film of recent times, but does little wrong as it goes about its business.
This story of a couple searching for connection and finding in the main grotesques, should be a touch more charming that it actually is. A hint of smugness mars the tone of the film.
Audience Reviews for Away We Go
Super Reviewer
I really hated the portal of the parents as selfish for moving away to fulfill a life long dream. The couple came across as way more selfish for not being happy for them.
Some of the other women in this were not convincing either. One still breast feeding her toddler (okay, I realise there women who do this, but all the other stuff as well?) and the "perfect" mum who goes pole dancing to deal with her sadness over miscarriage.
The guy dresses like a dork all the way through this and looks about 20. The vagina line made me cringe too, plus the opening scene. Just two people you don't want to think of in that context!
It has its nice moments, it's not all horrible, and I'm glad I got to see it, but it's certainly not a movie I ever want to see again.
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- Burt: Do you promise to let our daughter be fat or skinny or any weight at all? Because we want her to be happy, no matter what. Being obsessed with weight is just too cliché for our daughter.
- Verona: Yes, I do. Do you promise, when she talks, you'll listen? Like, really listen, especially when she's scared? And that her fights will be your fights?
- Burt: I do. And do you promise that if I die some embarrassing and boring death that you're gonna tell our daughter that her father was killed by Russian soldiers in this intense hand-to-hand combat in an attempt to save the lives of 850 Chechnyan orphans?
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- Burt: What's wrong with a stroller?
- LN: I LOVE my babies. Why would I want to PUSH them away from me?
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Foreign Titles
- Auf nach Irgendwo (DE)
- Un lugar donde quedarse (ES)
