The hippies take over in this ridiculously bad comedy.Well, I've got to hand it to Paul Rudd, Jennifer Aniston and the rest of the cast of the atrocious Wanderlust- I didn't think any film this year would come close to topping Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance in the runnings for Worst Film of 2012, but this comes damn close. The plot centres on a couple (Rudd and Aniston) who find themselves jobless and in need of a home, only to stumble upon a strange and eccentric community of hippies in the most unlikely of circumstances. You might think this would be a surefire 3-star comedy with some decent morals and interesting insights to this wildly contrasting society, but Rudd in particular ensures that any possibilities of laughing in this are scuppered by the sheer ludricity of the 'jokes' and the dull repetitiveness of it all. Admittedly, the movie opens well in New York, and the ending is a fun kind of crazy too, yet those two plus's cannot suffice in any way for the dire middle hour/90 minutes or so that you have to put yourself through in-between them. Events just seem to move nowhere slow, the amount of character stereotypes across the board is shocking (Step Brothers worked with the stereotypes well, Wanderlust flops it completely) and on a whole there's absolutely nothing original to be found here. Any gags which are intended for cheap laughs have been used countless times before, and even then they probably weren't funny the first time around. In short, Wanderlust is an absolutely woeful endeavour of a comedy that totally defies the laws of its genre (i.e. be funny) and obviously comes out none the better for it. Once again, as with Spirit Of Vengeance, I implore you- DO NOT SEE WANDERLUST.
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