Review: Up in the Air

Certificate - 15

Starring: Oceans Eleven

Synopysis:

Danny Ocean likes planes, flies on planes, lives on planes, is in planes. When on a plane he meets a lady who he likes, maybe even like-likes. They then talk about planes, being on planes, what they do between planes. After some planes Danny gets on a plane and finds out that she doesn’t like planes that much because she has a husband who is not a plane. Danny gets back on a plane and the film ends with him in a plane.

Themes

Danny Ocean is a successful but rom-comically flawed individual who traverses the United States telling people they have been fired. The film touches on the themes of elitism, travel, commitment, commitment to travel, elitist commitments, commitment-commitments and planes.

The most pressing and unique feature of the film is that the male lead is a ‘commitmentphobe’. Clearly the Hollywood Brains Trust have been putting there heads together, because never before have I seen a male role unable to involve himself fully with a woman due to his glaring flaws only to eventually thaw from his icy resentment of attachment to become hopelessly in love to then be shattered by the hard sting of rejection only to be soothed by the soft analogy of redemption.

Yes folks its rare when something of this ‘Ben Stiller’ like quality emerges, especially when not actually starring Ben Stiller.

FLAWLESS

From the Editor 'Ocean's 14th member'

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