Away We Go

A Sam Mendes movie, which can best be described as slight, but charming.

A young couple, played by John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph are expecting their
first child, and find simultaneously that his parents, who they were relying on
for some support, are moving overseas. They therefore embark upon a nationwide
search, visiting places where they have people they know, looking for somewhere
to settle down. Meanwhile, the subtext is that they're quite unsure how they're
going to cope as parents, and are taking a look at all their friends with kids,
to see how they deal.

There follows a series of episodes where they meet with the various odd people
they know, and we kind of learn something about families. Though I have to
confess, I couldn't really tell you what.

And that's the real sticking point for me with this film. It's highly amusing,
it's heartwarming, the performances are great, but it's behaving like that it's
revealing some great truth about family and home, and it really isn't. Where
they end up... well, without spoilering it, I will say that I really couldn't
say why they decided to end up there, rather than where they looked like they
might about two thirds of the way through the movie, which seemed like a much
better option, and *still* looks to me like a better option.

Anyway, a solid eight out of ten, I'd have said, I really enjoyed it, and
highly recommend it. I just thought it'd have rather more to say than it did.