Movies

Happy Christmas is not a very festive film. This is an independent film that has a bouncy soundtrack but that seem to be the extent to its peppiness.Anna Kendrick plays Jenny a good time party girl. After a break up she moves in with her brother Jeff who is a filmmaker living with his wife Kelly, a novelist. They have a 2 year old son.Jenny's arrival and wild behaviour interferes with Kelly's domestic set up. After a while Jenny and her friend Carson bond with Kelly.Happy Christmas is not a very simulating people, the characters talk and time just drags. It also looks amateurish as well.

This is a film I would like to forget, a complete waste of time. The only entertainment I found in this came from watching the performance of the little boy, Jude Swanberg, who was very cute and amusing.Also, while I was trying to keep track of the number of times Lena Dunham was using the word "like", Anna Kendrick started trying to outdo her. I just stopped counting. I was like, is she like making like fun of her like, or like just like unconsciously like copying her like way of like talking?I saw an old interview with Lena Dunham and she really did talk that way all the time.I've just checked out a more recent interview, and she seems cured now, thank goodness.

Camera work is ... did they use a fourth grader? Colors are bad, long moments of nothing (dark black room) for no reason, long shot of woman doing laundry. dialog....they didn't even try, I'm going to look up the name of the screen writer and run from that in the future. I can't imagine who they got to direct, but RUN if you see the name again! I couldn't make it passed fifteen minutes and I only hung in that long because it was clear that the actors were giving it their best shot. What a waste! In a sea of garbage produced by the industry, this wasn't interesting enough to hate.