How I Saved My Brother
Quirky comedy starring Jason Segel as a bong-smoking idler who attempts to find his destiny in life during one chaotic afternoon.
Jeff (Segel) is a layabout freeloader, who spends his days loafing around his mother’s house smoking drugs and wasting time. After he is asked by his mum (Susan Sarandon) to go out and buy some wood glue from the store, Jeff, reluctantly, finds himself caught up in a bizarre string of events that he sees as fate.
Jeff stumbles across his estranged brother Pat (Ed Helms), an annoying Yuppie-type whose crumbling relationship with his wife Linda (Judy Greer) becomes the central storyline - and also, possibly, Jeff’s destiny.
Funny and wacky in places, the film suffers from a severe lack of depth. With only a few central characters, the storyline contains little in the way of exploration, and instead rattles through a quick, short plot making a few jokes along the way. Jeff’s struggle to find a purpose is engaging, as is the rising tension between Pat and Linda, but Sarandon’s later-life escapades seem pointless and underdeveloped.
Regardless of the film’s themes, it is a poor attempt at comedy. The pace is monotonous, the script is too reliant on zany personal affectations, and the final scene (the best of the movie) needed to be properly founded by the former 60 minutes.
A ponderous movie that does little in the way of good comedy.
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