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Movie Review : The Answer Man 2009
Well it’s been a real long time since I have seen a real good comedy flick from Jeff Daniels, honestly my favorite from him has always been “Dumb and Dumber”. Now walking into the film I honestly wasn’t expecting much, it was a new director and lately the work Daniels has put it out was hit in miss. But after viewing the film, it was certainly a lot better then I expected but not quite the masterpiece I was looking for.

So we have our main character Arlen Faber who wrote a famous religious book called “God and Me” which is a huge hit across the world and is even written in a hundred different languages. But now is about to hit its twentieth anniversary, Faber played by Jeff Daniels is this reclusive bitter hermit author, who wants nothing to do with the outside world. Until one day his back goes out, he tries to get help from his agent but she abandons him because he acts like a complete jerk to her when she’s trying to get the anniversary of his book off the ground. So rather then being stuck on the ground forever, he decides to literally crawl his way to a chiropractor named Elizabeth. From sight Farber falls in love with her, and attempts to go out with her but also runs into issues with a book store owner named Kris whom looks to him for answers for his alcoholic problems.

the-answer-man-posterThe film for me was overall good, it’s the romantic comedy with same old motives but the comedy was what made it unique. The other problems were that a lot of the writing for some of the characters didn’t make a lot of sense, even to a point some of the characters didn’t really have to be there and were just wasted.

Jeff Daniels was defiantly the shining star in this piece; he makes us both bothered by and agree with his character about his motives. But his comedy was great, he was the only one that really maintained the character and it didn’t seem to change so suddenly, by that I mean it always seemed like everyone around him were super moody. There was a lot happening in the script, but there wasn’t any reason for it to happen. For instance the character Anne, played by Olivia Thrilby was dressed up as a spine and was dancing around outside gleefully handing out posters for the chiropractor office. But suddenly cut to outside and she’s knocked over by some invisible unknown force, and she storms off crying. I mean was the invisible man just running amok in the city? Or did some bullies just come by and beat her up? Or she had been traumatized as a child for wearing a costume? Some kind of reasoning would be nice as to why that happened.

Now don’t get me wrong here, the actors did a good job performance wise with the characters but to me I really blame first time director John Hindman, who also wrote the script. The characters would get extremely moody for no apparent reason, there would be a moment where you would think what just happened would be fine but to them it’s like you put excrement on their breakfast and didn’t tell them about it. One moment super happy then the next super hulk angry, it really felt forced with them as if John Hindman pointed a shotgun at them and be angry now or I will kill you! But I am sure that’s not what he really did but ones like to imagine so for shear amusement. In any case, there shouldn’t have so much forced emotion in the scenes, it felt so unnatural and left my self confused at the situation. I had also felt some characters felt unused, such as Kat Dennings character Dahlia, she had been in a few scenes but really didn’t serve a purpose other then to stand there and smile. They might as well have just had wooden Native American statues that hey have in front of cigar stores and it would have been just as effective.

The film had the charming comedy which made me like the film, but it fell short and it could have had such huge potential but because the unnatural moments written in the script and inconsistency with characters, it didn’t come out to be the gold trophy.

Its worth checking out for Jeff Daniels, he had a lot of memorable moments in the film that will have you laughing and smiling. So either check this out on DVD or a matinee if you got nothing else to watch.