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(You are likely to figure it out before Mitty does.) He hops on a helicopter flown by a drunken quasi-Nordic oaf, plummets into a stormy Arctic sea, skateboards to an Icelandic volcano, inadvertently tracks a snow leopard in South Asia, and more. A missing negative from the magazine's star globe-trotting photog ( Sean Penn) sets Mitty on his own real-life globe-trotting adventure in search of the photog, who can tell him where the missing shot is.
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These scenarios generally involve giving Mitty superpowers, and so the first half of the movie has a near-quorum of explosions and flying-human scenes. (She is played, with surprisingly noncommittal likeability for such an appealingly idiosyncratic performer, by Kristen Wiig.) Stiller plays the title character, a daydreamer so focused that even as he learns that he's likely to lose his job as a "negative assets handler" in the photo department of the real-life photo-driven Life (which ceased publication as a separate magazine in 2000, and was re-created as a newspaper supplement), he can't stop constructing fantasy scenarios involving the co-worker on whom he's crushing. In "Tropic Thunder," that privilege was articulated via biting the Hollywood hand that fed him and telling the audience that it was getting what it deserved here, the privilege manifests itself in Stiller's ability to take a big film crew to Greenland, Iceland, and a relatively safe stand-in for Afghanistan to impart some vague, semi-earnest be-here-now bromides to the paying customers. I'm doing this because I'm not entirely sure that my negative reaction isn't a sort of personal carry-over from Stiller's last directorial effort, the intermittently amusing but entirely smug and hateful " Tropic Thunder." From the opening credit sequence, featuring the tableau-like visuals that recall the work of Wes Anderson-for whom Stiller acted in the wonderful " The Royal Tenenbaums"-my way of seeing the movie was circumscribed by the belief that what was being expressed/communicated was nothing much more than Stiller's own privilege. Although Stiller has acted in far-out films like Zoolander before, this one gives viewers another side to this actor – one who can handle such ambitious films with ease.For all that, I'm giving the movie two stars, which, in star speak, translates to "fair." I'm not doing this as a sop to anyone who might end up charmed by the sometimes winsome and always self-help-book-like particulars of Stiller's romantic fable, which is can-do optimistic in rather stark contrast to Thurber's highly pessimistic mini-parable. Walter's mom Edna (MacLaine) has a brief but impactful presence. Penn gives O'Donnell the right amount of enigmatic, distant charm. The Icelandic landscapes look picture-postcard perfect and the varied scenery, as he crisscrosses the globe, will take your breath away.Īs Walter travels, he slowly metamorphoses from the socially awkward gimp into the man he's always dreamed of becoming. However, a missing negative in the roll that the revered but nomadic O'Connell sends him, destined for use in the magazine's last issue, leads him on a continent-hopping trail that involves rides with a drunken chopper pilot (Ólafsson) in Greenland, dodging an erupting volcano in Iceland and more. Perhaps sensing Walter's latent potential, O'Connell would send his pictures for publication only to Walter, who he felt did proper justice to them.
In comes Ted Hendricks (Scott), the arrogant 'managing director of transition' who develops a tendency to browbeat Walter.Īs the movie unfolds, we learn that there's more to Walter than him just scrutinizing photographs all day, for the last 16 years. And while he pursues that, other events lead to LIFE going under the hammer. Todd urges Walter to engage Cheryl in real life.
The timid Walter tracks down a co-worker he fancies called Cheryl (Wiig) on a social network, and when that route proves unfruitful, he contacts the site's admin, Todd Maher (Oswalt) to help him out.
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