Girl Most Likely (2013)
Average Rating: 4.5/10
Reviews Counted: 85
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 68
Largely witless and disappointingly dull, Girl Most Likely strands the gifted Kristen Wiig in a blandly hollow foray into scattershot sitcom territory.
Average Rating: 4.3/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 25
Largely witless and disappointingly dull, Girl Most Likely strands the gifted Kristen Wiig in a blandly hollow foray into scattershot sitcom territory.
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Movie Info
Kristen Wiig stars as Imogene, once a promising young New York playwright whose promise has fizzled, thanks to a crisis of confidence. Heavily in denial about being dumped by her society boyfriend, Imogene uses her skill for drama to stage an elaborate fake suicide as an appeal for his sympathy. But her attempt backfires when she's put into the custody of Zelda, her estranged gambling addict mother (Annette Bening), and must return home with her to the Jersey shore. Desperate to get back to her
Cast
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Kristen Wiig
Imogene -
Annette Bening
Zelda -
Darren Criss
Lee -
Matt Dillon
George -
Christopher Fitzgera...
Ralph -
June Diane Raphael
Dara -
Natasha Lyonne
Allyson -
Michelle Morgan
Georgina -
Mickey Sumner
Hannah -
Doran Inghram
Sloane -
Melissa Navia
Assistant -
Michelle Hurd
Libby -
Murray Bartlett
James Whitney -
Joe Basile
Cool Dad -
Reed Birney
Dr. Chalmers -
Nathan Corddry
Larry -
Jon Cooper
Backstreet Boy -
Aliya Carter
NYPD Police Officer ... -
Ronald Guttman
Armando -
Antwayn Hopper
Emcee
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There are moments to make you honestly wish it were a better movie, and that the semi-autobiographical screenplay by Michelle Morgan didn't feel so much like a first draft.
Top CriticOnce you get past Imogene's insufferableness, you'll find yourself rooting for her.
Kristen Wiig's comic artistry and its melodramatic tinge are squandered in this frenetic, schematic comedy, which also lays waste to a fertile premise.
Nobody in this movie is really appealing enough to be much fun. The state of New Jersey should sue.
"Girl Most Likely" is a strange movie, in that it has the atmosphere of a comedy and some extreme characters set up to be comical, but there are really no funny scenes.
Wiig didn't write the script for Girl Most Likely, but surely all those years of making tangy lemonade from the SNL writing staff's lemons must have given her the chops to do more than she manages to do here. What a shame.
A perfectly gauged performance by Wiig holds this ramshackle comedy-drama together, as she plays a woman forced to confront everything she has always hated about herself.
Sometimes dysfunction just doesn't work.
Incidental at best, and a touch irksome at worst.
The 'exoskeleton' subplot is as clunky a metaphorical experience as you will ever endure.
Ultimately, this is a comedy that shows a lot of early promise but fails to deliver.
The twinned themes of self-invention and self-loathing are redolent of Rushmore, Flirting With Disaster and Young Adult but Imogene's brand of narcissism has its own velocity.
There's an over-reliance on Wiig's gift for ditzy, put-upon characters, although her charm wears thin, while the script veers between sit-com humour and pathos.
The rustle of producers' notes and test-screening cards gradually drowns out anything amusing.
Much of this could be forgiven if you had even the remotest shred of sympathy for Imogene. But from beginning to end, she's the sort of character you should cross the cinema foyer to avoid.
The presence of Kristen Wiig helps salvage this lazy femme riff on the slacker comedy.
A watchable comedy enlivened by strong comic performances and likeable, offbeat characters, though Girl Most Likely settles for rough edges and quirky moments ...
Even though this comedy has a tendency to dip into cartoonish silliness, it's anchored by a razor-sharp performance by Wiig as a woman forced to confront everything she hates about herself.
Wiig is always watchable and her comic timing is impeccable, but her bored expression only serves to amplify the monotony of the plot.
A thin soup of weak jokes and contrived drama.
Feeling somewhat similar to the likes of Frances Ha, in that it's a self-discovery tale of a woman finding herself, this does just lack that bit of class required to completely pull it off.
Girl Most Likely is occasionally funny but it's a more formulaic film than you might expect from former documentarians.
a flimsy, dreary debacle
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Foreign Titles
- Imogene (FR)
Kristen Wiig is very good in the film. So is Annette Bening as her mother. Matt Dillon steals the film as George. I thought Darren Criss had no chemistry at all with Wiig.
The film is worth checking out for the performances.