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Keeping Up with the Joneses

Keeping Up with the Joneses (2016)

October. 21,2016
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5.9
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PG-13
| Action Comedy

An ordinary suburban couple finds it’s not easy keeping up with the Joneses – their impossibly gorgeous and ultra-sophisticated new neighbors – especially when they discover that Mr. and Mrs. “Jones” are covert operatives.

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buggaru
2016/10/21

There, I said it. If you wanna look for laugh, look some place else.

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SnoopyStyle
2016/10/22

In suburban Atlanta, married couple Jeff (Zach Galifianakis) and Karen Gaffney (Isla Fisher) drop off their sons for the summer camp. They have a temporary empty nest. Tim (Jon Hamm) and Natalie Jones (Gal Gadot) move into the neighborhood. They are exotic, friendly, beautiful, super-skilled, and overly interested in Jeff's workplace.This has a certain fun with the foursome together. They have a nice comedic chemistry. Isla Fisher is probably too cute and beautiful. Her character needs to be the opposite of Gal Gadot although the height difference with Wonder Woman is quite funny during the lingerie scene. Isla is a pretty funny comedic actress which helps a lot. There are ways to push this harder but it does hold back. Galifianakis could have been more dead pan wacky. While the four actors do good work together, the premise and the writing adds little new to the genre.

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jhenson-29069
2016/10/23

Am I the only one who has those moments during movies or shows that characters just anger you so much because of their stupidity even when you know and understand that the whole idea of that character is too be stupid and clueless? This is basically the epitome of that sort of story. It's just 2 hours of Fisher and Galafinakis doing exactly what they shouldn't do at all time. Hamm says don't turn around and Zach turns around. Hamm says "duck!" and Zach says "where?" even though there are people chasing them and trying to murder them. I know, this is stupid to get mad at. But It's honestly just infuriating to watch.

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James Kardys
2016/10/24

This is film is a great example of how a movie with a well-respected director and a well-respected cast can turn out awful due to an incompetent writer. Director Greg Mottola ("Superbad") and actors Zach Galifianakis ("The Hangover"), Isla Fisher ("Wedding Crashers"), Jon Hamm ("Bridesmaids") and Gal Gadot ("Wonder Woman") are all dragged down by writer Michael LeSieur, who had previously dragged down the Russo Brothers, Owen Wilson, Kate Hudson, Matt Dillon, and Michael Douglas in "You, Me, and Dupree."From the very beginning, the film is set to either annoy or put viewers to sleep. The acting is for the most part atrocious. Isla Fisher seems to be the only one who's even trying. When she finds out that her neighbors are spies, her subsequent freak-outs are very convincing, while Galifianakis' subsequent freak-outs are very forced. This unfortunately means two things. 1) Fisher and Galifianakis do NOT have good on screen chemistry, and 2) The fact that Fisher's the only one legitimately freaking out indicates that LeSieur intended for her character to be a female Nicolas Cage. That's pretty insulting to my intelligence, considering that Isla Fisher can actually act and Nicolas Cage can't (at least not anymore). As for Jon Hamm and Gal Gadot, they are beyond wooden. End of story.And the plot? How did this screenplay even get green-lighted? Having the kids on screen but not giving them any dialogue or character development? Making all of the male characters except Jon Hamm low-IQ beta males? Confusing a corset with lingerie and as a result making Isla Fisher's seduction scene much less sexier than it could've been? Having the boss of a major arms company assassinated and then acting like nothing happened? Having another neighbor be a bad guy for no reason? Having Pat Oswalt degrade his resume by playing an arms dealer who's a bad guy because of a parking spot dispute and is not at all funny, when the film is supposed to be a comedy? Throwing in slow- motion romantic moments at the weirdest times possible? This film is a MESS. The only reason I consider it worth seeing and give it two stars instead of one is because Isla Fisher, my favorite actress, is in it, and she's actually trying. If you're not an Isla Fisher fan, SKIP this movie.

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