Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

venomek I have started to watch this movie without reading anything about it, just checked that it is a comedy. Although the plot seems to be interesting the movie seems not to be as much of a comedy as you might think. Yes, of course the bad European habits seem to be taken from real life, but in fact they are much overdrawn. In fact as for a comedy it seems not so funny at all, however the good acting of the main characters, some really funny situations save this movie from being a waste of time. The most interesting plot for me was selling of your soul to someone – this kept me thinking for a while. Watching this one made me feel that I might have done something better with my time, but If you have some spare time and do not have a better thing to do you might even enjoy this one.

The_late_Buddy_Ryan A follow-up to Julie Delpy's first directorial effort, "Two Days in Paris," that's quite a bit more entertaining, IMHO, than the original. The premise—JD and Chris Rock are Marion and Mingus, Downtown culture workers with two slightly troubled, adorable kids—doesn't quite fulfill its promise but fans of Richard Linklater's "Before" films might want to take a chance. The main storyline chugs along pretty nicely: the couple endures a brief visit from her elderly flowerchild father ("he says that showers deplete the immune system"), tactlesss sister and sister's doltish boyfriend. Parallel plots involving a gallery opening (she's some sort of conceptual art photog) and a colossal Lucy-style whopper she tells a neighbor to get out of a minor scrape are a little draggy, though a couple of these filler scenes have a modest payoff later on. Delpy plays pretty much the same talky, frazzled, excitable character she does in the "Before" films; Chris Rock seems a little colorless (as it were), as if he's trying too hard to escape from his standup persona (the scenes where he soliloquizes to a cardboard-cutout Obama didn't do much for me). Delpy's been accused of being a self-hating Frenchy, but I think the point is that people tend to behave as if the stuff they do in a foreign country doesn't really go on their permanent record—Sis swans around in a T-shirt that doesn't quite cover her butt, par example, Dad takes his keys to the lustrous flanks of a stretch Hummer (back home he only does that if they're parked on the sidewalk), boyfriend Manu commits every possible faux pas. The highpoint is a scene where Mingus, who writes for the Village Voice, is trying to score points with a dark-complected White House staffer (not played by Kal Penn) they run into in a café, and the sisters immediately start bickering while Manu babbles on about Harold and Kumar going to White Castle… Not a must-see at all but definitely watchable.PS—a reviewer down below insists that Marion's French connections don't act right b/c they're "gritty" Bretons, not Parisians. Au contraire! Both films make clear that Dad's a gallery owner, Sis a child psychologist and Manu some sort of writer; they're from Paris.

rooee Near the end of this movie, Vincent Gallo turns up as himself, proclaims himself a polymath, and starts questioning the existence of the human soul. The fact that I couldn't tell if this scene was a hideous joke or some kind of emotional conclusion testifies to the maddening failure of 2 Days In New York to engage anyone except, presumably, Julie Delpy. Delpy writes and directs, and stars as Marion, a neurotic photographer whose monstrous family comes over from Paris to cause havoc. Her boyfriend, Mingus (Chris Rock), suffers their broad humour and rudeness with patience and dignity. Will Marion and Mingus survive this ordeal? More importantly, will we the audience?"Life is harder to handle than any dragon," Marion concludes, near the end. Hear-hear. Who needs big-budget CG blockbusters when you've real insight into the human condition at a fraction of the cost? And yet, ironically, 2 Days In New York is more shallow and crass (yet simultaneously safe and twee) than ninety percent of multiplex movies. Blandly directed, self-consciously "wacky", peopled by infantile characters who show no signs of behaving like recognisable adults, the film breaks down into a series of tonally erratic comedy setpieces and mildly zany episodes full of overlapping banter and pertaining to nothing but a vague sense of snarky middle-class discontent. This is what I imagine a Friends movie would look like if they attempted to recapture the magic now: ego mayhem, cheap 'n' chuckling sex jokes, and cringeworthy First World whining.

Davidon80 Cross culture comedy about French people experiencing New York. Chris Rock plays the love interest to Julie Delpy whose family come to visit. Middle brow comedy and philosophical musing ensues.Julie Delpy does well to direct a quirky comedy with Chris Rock in the lead. The racial stereo typing, which could have so easily been the focus, are kept to a minimum. What remains in focus is the belief that the movie stands for something boldly satirical with regards to art and modern perceptions of family, this in itself is commendable and makes the movie a curio for the art house crowd.The main weakness is that the premise is nothing new and the middle class bubble in which the couple are so neatly wrapped up in (she's an artist and he's a radio DJ) precludes the characters from ever gaining any sympathy from the audience. Thus the soul searching and Gaelic bite that the Delpy character regularly exhibits really don't hit home.Chris Rock does very well in a smart leading man role, and in many ways keeps the movie chugging along (there is a potential hilarious comedy about Chris Rock's character that went unexplored). The French cast are genuinely believable and do not over play the fish out of water card. The script has it's moments and keeps a well rounded level of interest. Hopefully the upshot of this movie is that Chris Rock will get more straight roles in the future and have a better chance to flex his comedic muscles in more relevant comedies beyond the likes of Grown Ups 2.