Did you know that there was a film out there with Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis, Amy Poehler, the late Edward Hermann “,” Jenna Fischer, Peter Bogdanovich and even Melissa Rauch from “The Big Bang Theory?” What if I would tell you that Matthew Weiner’s film, a veteran of “The Sopranos”, is written and staged. Who created “Mad Men?” Ask yourself why you have never seen it before?! It is probably because this film, 2014 “As you here here”, was a big flop – but I will come back to it at a moment. First, what is “are you here” – what is currently turning out to be quite popular in Amazon Prime Video?
When we first meet Wilson’s local weather man, Steve Dallas only to make bad news a day before a broadcast. When his friend of childhood breaks Ben Baker (Galifianakis) into the studio to announce that his father died and he needs Steve to drive him to the funeral; The two appear so late that they do not even make the coffin down into the ground, but still learns that he is the main use of his father’s will and inherits a few million dollars and a farm.
If you look at this summary and have the feeling that this film is everywhere, it is because It is. Basically, Ben does not know how to run the farm, she gives Steve, sleeps with his own stepmother Angela (Laura Ramsey), and the two make a big chaos before everything ends relatively happily. What did critics had to “are you here” when it came out?
What did critics think about, are they here when it came out in 2013?
The answer to this question is that critics had very few nice things to say “they are here” when it came to cinemas in 2014. The film has only one 8% rating for rotten tomatoesAnd the critical consensus is quite dark to correspond: “In view of the amount of talents, which were put together on both sides of the camera, they are confusingly flat here.” So what about individual critics who saw the film? At Entertainment weeklyChris Nashawaty was pretty blunt, wrote, “Mad Mad Men ‘Mastermind Matthew Weiners Big-Screen-Debüt, the aggressively unpleasant you are here, all the dark humor and delicate shades of character that we see in his TV series are conspicuously absent . “Mad men” Already in the air when this came out.) David Rooney from The Hollywood reporter Nashawaty repeated and said: “This sad ignition will only enjoy the fact that competing television creatives that Matthew Weiner can stumble.”
Gone with The New York PostSara Stewart got to the point: “There is little to explain the existence of this confusingly unpleasant film.” Claudia Puig actually followed a similar approach for USA TODAYwrote: “It is so informal, uncomfortable and poor, it is almost impossible to understand.” Perhaps the only borderline-good rating for “Are You Here” by David Gemststein came from New York MagazineThe one about the film said: “It’s funny, chunky, serious and hardly credible, but it’s all a piece” – Ben Kenigsberg at The New York Times also had some Measured praise and mentions the film “(on) lovable mess that presses in search of an identity.”
Since then, what have Owen Wilson and Zach Galifianakis together in which they were together?
Fortunately for Owen Wilson, One of his best projects It was appeared immediately after the catastrophic “Are You Here” – especially a role in Wes Anderson’s 2014 film “The Grand Budapest Hotel”. Wilson, who worked with Anderson on several previous projects, including “Rushmore”, “The Royal Tenenbaums”, “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou” and “The Darjeeling Limited” (and co-author for these first two) appears in the Oscar , in the Oscar -nominated ensemble as M. Chuck, the leader of a Concierge Brotherhood. In the same year, Wilson worked with another Anderson – Paul Thomas Anderson, more precisely – on “inherent vice”, an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s astonishing novel, in which Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon and Benicio del Toro also play the leading role. Years later in 2021 Wilson teamed up with the first Anderson company to be “The French Dispatch”, and in recent years he also diversifies his résumé with modern romantic comedies (such as “Marry Me” 2022) and even one Journey to Marvel Cinematic Universe thanks his role as Mobius M. Mobius in “Loki”.
So what about Zach Galifianakis? At that time he was probably the best known for his work in “The Hangover” trilogy (although he later said that he had regretted all the “trilogy” aspect), but he followed with the film “Birdman” from 2014 “you are here”, which ultimately won the best picture at the Academy Awards next year. Galifianakis gave his voice “The Lego Batman Movie” as Joker in 2017. In 2019, a new life with “between Two Ferns: The Movie” will breathe in 2019 and appear in the last comedies such as “The Beanie Bubble” and “Winner”. What “are you here”, you can now stream it on Amazon Prime Video if you please.
