![]() Aside from how it continuously makes you scrape the walls of its hollow comic sequences for a laugh, it does not say anything new about how misinformation became a political cause, or about how scandals are the true opiate for the masses, whether it involves a pop star or the president. The plotting of “Don’t Look Up” isn't just anti-urgent, it also makes one constantly aware of what this movie is not doing. And then there’s Rob Morgan, who plays a nothing sidekick to Lawrence and DiCaprio despite being just as good as them. The same more or less happens to a forgotten Lawrence, or Streep, or Perry, or Melanie Lynskey, or Timoth é e Chalamet, as yet another grungy, lackadaisical, superficial pre-adult. She’s one of the best in the game, and McKay makes her plastic and cheap, and one of many characters who are not stretched out nearly enough in this high-art spoof. Credit to moments when the chaos of "Don't Look Up" feels inspired, watching Leonardo DiCaprio use his Oscar-approved volume to scream “We’re all going to die” on a “Sesame Street”-like show is funny.īut of the many exciting names who are then wasted on this movie’s limited sense of humor, Blanchett is at the top of the list. Only one of the astronomers makes it out of the studio appearance without turning into a national meme-and no one takes their screed seriously-but it sets them on contrasting paths of popularity, becoming the media distraction themselves. Mindy and Dibiasky then take their message to the media, but the platform is a banter-heavy morning show (hosted by vacuous characters played by Perry and Blanchett) where the producers try to smooth their story into a cutesy scientific discovery in between the aforementioned Grande incident. And because the movie’s editing is complicit in the short attention spans that McKay nonetheless rages against, it tends to intercut different framed pictures of Streep’s President Orlean with various celebrities, or hop from one scene to another while characters are talking mid-sentence. Like many characters, you can see the reflection of what it means, but the joke often ends at recognition. There’s no respite offered from Jonah Hill, who plays a mildly funny character-her chief of staff, and sociopathic son-but is reduced to easy bro jokes. McKay begins to needle the viewer with the joke that no one cares about the end of the world as much the latest distracting scandal. When she does finally take a meeting with them, she’s more concerned about her polling numbers, how things will look an apocalypse won’t help the upcoming primaries. Their initial audience for their news is the President of the United States, played by Meryl Streep. ![]() They quickly want to let the world know, and realize in the coming days that people don’t care about bad news about the future. Mindy are especially bad after his assistant Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) casually makes a horrific discovery: a comet is coming for planet Earth in six months and 14 days. McKay takes the nuclear energy within golden boy DiCaprio, the kind that gets him Oscar nominations year after year, and makes him swallow it so that he turns into a mildly amusing Will Ferrell character. The movie's first bungled joke concerns its biggest name, Leonardo DiCaprio, who plays a low-level astronomer from Michigan. Get used to that rise of anticipation and crash of execution if you want to be unsurprised by "Don't Look Up." ![]() The amount of star power on-screen is set up for a once-in-a-lifetime comedy free-for-all, but “Don’t Look Up” uses this to make one of many anti-provocative jokes about how celebrity messiness compels us more than the death of our planet. One scene has Leonardo DiCaprio, Ariana Grande, Cate Blanchett, Tyler Perry, and Jennifer Lawrence sitting next to each other, with Scott Mescudi ( Kid Cudi) on a video feed for good measure. This Netflix movie is packed with so many big, expensive names, and it often puts them all in the same room. If “Don’t Look Up” deserves any award, it’s for the work of its casting director, Francine Maisler.
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