This Is 40 (2012)

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

A Masterpiece!

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

I love Knocked Up, but this is just so much better in every way - though they are completely different films that just share some of the same characters, so I can understand what some people didn't take to it. The tone is similar, but nowhere near as low-brow or goofy as Knocked Up is and the general narrative is a lot deeper. It's just a window into the lives of a couple sliding towards middle age....a place they really don't want to be, and a fact they hate to be reminded of. My favourite Apatow movie by a long shot, and probably my favorite performance from Paul Rudd as well. He and Leslie Mann really knock this one out of the park.

I like the fact that Leslie plays the lead character instead of supporting, for a change. However i found the movie to be too long, especially considering the fact that there is not that great of plot. I can honestly say that i did not laugh one single time, and i love all comedies. The movie made me Wonder why they stayed together, because of the lack of chemestry between the characters as well as the actors. I didn't really root for any of the characters, and found many scenes confusing and boring. I really wanted to like and enjoy this comedy, but i did not.

This is a movie about nothing. No story, no red line just two couples who complain about not having sex, and nothing...two hours of nothing!

This is 40 (2012): Dir: Judd Apatow / Cast: Leslie Mann, Paul Rudd, Albert Brooks, Megan Fox, Jason Segel: Disappointing comedy about the reality of middle age. It is said to be a "sort of" sequel to Knocked Up but after making three great comedies Judd Apatow seems at a loss here. The film has a concept but no story to back it. It stars Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd as a married couple with two daughters. They are both turning 40 this week and Mann is insecure about it. She works at a fashion store where she suspects that one of her two employees is stealing, and the revelation of this is one of the dumbest scenes in the film with its The Exorcist reference. Rudd runs a recording studio who are struggling to revive the career of Graham Parker. This all sounds fine but Apatow cannot seem to organize it. We have a hotel session involving marijuana cookies that is more embarrassing than funny. Apatow's daughters are in the film fighting and carrying on but their footage seems ill placed such as the parents having an argument and then having an unnecessary cut to the youngest playing a key board. Too many dreadful subplots of witch doctors and absent parents as well as a climax that only brings the relief of the film being over. Mann and Rudd are very good here and Alberts Brooks is funny as Rudd's leach of a father but there are too many characters and not enough patients for them all. Even Megan Fox appears only to have her breasts caressed. Jason Segel plays a fitness trainer who gets to shake his ass in Mann's face or caress her body. Strong message of mid life benefits within an Apatow misfire. Score: 5 ½ / 10