Walter
Mitty has been working for 16 years at Life Magazine. He is the manager of negative assets, this means he handles the negatives of photos.
He sees pictures of others having adventures but he’s never really done
anything in his own life. He has a
crush on a newly hired woman, Cheryl Melhoff but he’s too shy to ask her for a
date. Instead of having
adventures, he daydreams about adventures while he’s going about his daily dull
life. Unfortunately for everyone
working at Life, the magazine is going to publish its last issue. Walter receives a set of pictures from an
independent photographer and the one negative meant to be the last cover
picture is missing.
The
mind adventures of Walter are funny but when he starts having a real adventure,
you aren’t sure if he’s still daydreaming or everything has changed for him? Everything he does on his adventures is very much out of
character considering the past 16 years of his life. For once, Ben Stiller has made a movie that is better than his usual efforts. This is interesting and enjoyable. 3 ½* (I liked this movie)
114
min, Adventure directed by Ben Stiller with Kristen Wiig, Jon Daly, Ben
Stiller, Kathryn Hahn, Terence Bernie Hines, Adam Scott, Paul Fitzgerald, Grace
Rex, Alex Anfanger, Amanda Naughton, Adrian Martinez.
Note: Imdb 7.4 out of 10, 50% critic 71%
audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 2*.
Special
Note: Life magazine stopped
publication as a separate magazine in 2000 but was recreated as a newspaper
supplement. The reviewer on Roger
Ebert’s web site hated, hated, hated this movie. This film and also the 1947 film with the same title are based on a 1939 short story by James Thurber even though they are completely different.
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