I don't usually do negative comments, but in this case I feel the positive reviews and the IMDb rating are so much higher than the film warrants that you wonder about the impartiality of the writers and voters (a danger when there are so few responses).
There are so many good movies of this genre (Little Miss Sunshine and Y tu mamá también come to mind) that you might be interested in this one, based on the reviews. I think you'd be disappointed.
1. The camera work in the RV will drive you nuts. Sure, you get the idea that the RV is moving, but you will also get seasick.
2. To paraphrase Yogi Berra, the scenery really stinks, and there is too much of it. This is a pretty short movie, and a lot of it is endless shots of the RV going down the road.
3. There are too many characters and, as others have mentioned, nothing happens. At one point I was actually looking forward to coming to a toll booth!
4. When something does happen (there is some conflict), the "actors" who work OK when they are just being normal people come up very short, and the scenes just come across as amateurish.
If you watch the DVD extra features (I gave them 1 minute), the director says that the film is essentially autobiographical. I think that's the basic problem. People don't watch film to see real life, it's all around them. You can do a great film about real life and you can pace it slowly, but you have to find something profound about the human condition. I didn't see that in this film.
There are so many good movies of this genre (Little Miss Sunshine and Y tu mamá también come to mind) that you might be interested in this one, based on the reviews. I think you'd be disappointed.
1. The camera work in the RV will drive you nuts. Sure, you get the idea that the RV is moving, but you will also get seasick.
2. To paraphrase Yogi Berra, the scenery really stinks, and there is too much of it. This is a pretty short movie, and a lot of it is endless shots of the RV going down the road.
3. There are too many characters and, as others have mentioned, nothing happens. At one point I was actually looking forward to coming to a toll booth!
4. When something does happen (there is some conflict), the "actors" who work OK when they are just being normal people come up very short, and the scenes just come across as amateurish.
If you watch the DVD extra features (I gave them 1 minute), the director says that the film is essentially autobiographical. I think that's the basic problem. People don't watch film to see real life, it's all around them. You can do a great film about real life and you can pace it slowly, but you have to find something profound about the human condition. I didn't see that in this film.