Actors: Ben Stiller, Kristen
Wiig, Shirley MacLaine, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn,
Sean Penn, Patton Oswalt
Rating: 8 out of 10, The
best that can be said of this is repeating the wise words of my daughter, Ben
Stiller is no Danny Kaye. The movie was
startlingly beautiful though in the
location shots of off the beaten places like Greenland, Iceland, and the
Himalayas. Those parts were so well done
that it was almost like visiting them.
This is the third time I’ve watched this film and it grows in my
estimation each time. The gaping plot
holes don’t distract from the amazing canvas the scenes of Walter’s travels are
painted on. Those scenes are
devastatingly beautiful and worth the price of the contrived plot. It’s always tough to remake a classic and
this movie is eminently watchable but I guess I may have expected too much from
it.
MVP: Stiller
underplays his usual over the top personae and shows depth as Walter
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