In “Friendship”, a late highlight of the spring films season, the dad of the indescribable suburbs Craig Waterman (Tim Robinson) clings to a beige existence, Play-it-Sate. He carries the same line of clothing daily (restoration of the view of the ocean), takes place in a bland and sterile office where he reflects on profitable applications and spends of the slabs of his time in his home because he has no male, or, moreover, a friend with it. Even his relationships with his surviving wife of cancer Tami (Kate Mara), who spends most of her time with her ex, and her son Steven (Jack Dylan Grazer) exists on a flat, even old and even old plan.
All this changes because of the blunder of a delivery man. Craig finds the color and vitality of life once he gives a wandering package to his neighboring neighbor, the meteorologist Austin Carmichael (Paul Rudd). Austin is all that Craig is not. Gregarian, charming and in possession of a mustache of porn star that works for him, Austin continues to switch the dull world of Craig. He is the embodiment of Cool, devil he even plays in a group. The two hinders bromance which then breaks on one side because Craig is socially incompetent and, in the end, the qualities which fuel the inappropriate interactions which are becoming more and more Dédéy after a disastrous pike session with the friends of Austin. At the same time, Craig’s relationship with Tami imploded after taking him in a great underground adventure that he and Austin shared.
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The effective comedy of director of director Andrew Deyoung is darker and more nervous than standard bromances, including “I Love You, Man”, a comedy of 2009 with Rudd and Jason Segel.
This change of tone allows his two prospects to play their own established images, and he is paying for both. Robinson, familiar to fans of the show Sketch Comedy “I think you should leave with Tim Robinson”, draws enough humanity from his character stuck to make you appreciate it while Rud, who makes fun of his imperturbable image, on the occasion to show the complexity of Austin, a man concerned with images who affirms that others want to be like him.
By making Austin imperfect and vain, this nuanced “friendship” moves away from being a navel gas to a note on the heavy nature of male friendships. He certainly offers his two actors and his filmmaker a chance to prove that they also have more dimension.
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‘FRIENDSHIP’
3 out of 4 stars
Class: R (language, some drug references)
With: Stars Tim Robinson, Paul Rudd, Kate Mara, Jack Dylan Grazer
Writer / director: Andrew Deyoung
Operating time: 1 hour, 37 minutes
When and where: Open May 16 in theaters in the Bay region.
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