Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

SnoopyStyle Successful writer Margot (Nicole Kidman) and her son Claude travel to attend her sister Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh)'s wedding to Malcolm (Jack Black) at their Long Island home. They live in the estranged sisters' former family home with Pauline's daughter Ingrid. Pauline is a free-spirit and Margot looks down on the slacker Malcolm. They talk about the absent Becky. There's a fight with the neighbor over Margot's beloved tree. Pauline tells Margot about her pregnancy. Margot is looking to break up with her husband Jim. She has an interview with former boyfriend Dick Koosman (Ciarán Hinds). It goes badly with a secret from Dick's daughter Maisy.This is a mass of dysfunctional family relationship. It's not exactly dark and it's not necessarily funny. It exists in a murky space where it is tough to find the appeal. The most appealing are actresses Kidman and Leigh. Black is interestingly playing against type. The actors are fine although Noah Baumbach hasn't created a crowd pleaser.

xhidden99 I have never seen a gaggle of characters more self absorbed more toxic more nasty to one another ever. And I just finished watching "Another Happy Day". These are characters you simply don't care about. The fact that they are loosely a 'family' is merely a rhetorical crutch for the setting. They could just as easily be total strangers, survivors of a boat sinking. It's as if you've come across people who actually WANT to have narcissistic personality disorder.Now let's move on. It's Baumbach so there's no beginning or end to the film. It drops you in medias res but you're left not really caring what or why. And it takes off in its unstudied warbling random way from there. No real plot arc little continuity. Scenes trail one another which serve as little more than a framework for overeducated moderately successful New York literary and academic types, employed or not, to push the boundaries of tact and taste, particularly in the creepy way they speak to their own adolescent children. Occasionally there will be a scene tossed in which has no purpose and doesn't fit. Often there are things you think will be useful later but never seen again. And then of course there's the usual assortment of random body fluids and functions because, why not? And then as I said, it's Baumbach, so there's no ending either. No spoiler there. It just ends because...well who knows? In any case it's supposed to be a morality tale of the agony of being a family of rich NYC-Hampton writerly types who've spent every waking moment not having a filter between their brains and their mouths and who live to claw out each other's eyes between gulps of white wine.The thing is, it's not a terrible movie. It's simply populated with terrible people saying and doing terrible things from the script of a terrible writer. But it is the longest 90 minute film you'll ever watch

Dave Don't waste your time or money-this one stinks really REALLY BADLY!! This film makes the Royal(flush it down the toilet)Tenenbaums look like a masterpiece!! The only reason I rented this smelly turd was because we live in the very town-East Quogue, where some of it was filmed...so naturally we had to check it out. Boy, what a mistake that was!! Can even remember having Main Street(Montauk Hwy) closed down for a day or two while they filmed-thanks Noah, the inconvenience and intrusion definitely wasn't worth it!! Plus they shot some other scenes nearby, I believe it might have been Red Creek-a really beautiful area-such a waste of some great scenery. I think I even stood behind the food crew on the "express" checkout line one morning at the local supermarket-I swear!! (buying what seemed like a half million dollars worth of food-at least ten cases of bottled water, must have been for Nicole's sustenance). I even saw the van as they loaded it up, I guess Hollywood has to make a big production out of everything. Sorry-I'm beginning to sound like this movie-haha. Anyway...This film pushed our patience, in the sense of "when is this movie going to start getting interesting". My wife and I unfortunately had to wait until nearly the end before the one scene that showcased our tiny town revealed itself. Ouch, what an agonizing wait. Even my wife thought this was painful to watch, and she gravitates towards these kind of flicks. Awful, AWFUL dialogue. Silly, banal bickering one minute, followed by seemingly hollow, half-hearted apologies and reconciliations the next. Over and OVER and OVER again-the whole movie was pretty much that. I'm not sure what Baumbach was thinking when he wrote the screenplay, and then directed this junk. Sure he had some success with "The Squid and the Whale"-which we both liked... But I guess he thinks he can just expand the wackiness-dysfunctional-kooky factor and sprinkle in some dull, laughless humor and voilà, he's got a viewable movie-well WRONG!! This movie tries too hard to be off-center, dysfunctional and wacky. I agree with other posters that while some people find these introspectives of nutjobs' lives amusing, most of us find them dull, boring and almost unlifelike. Main stream folks have their problems, but not like this.Want more? Really dopey dialogue throughout most of this film(did I just say that-well it's worth repeating), bad casting-read Jack Black, that Pais kid was rather pathetic too, horrible editing at times, several shots that just totally did not match up, hey that should never happen in this day and age, and a lousy plot... This film is just a total waste of time and space(on anyone's DVD shelf). Avoid this stinker at any cost!! Even a 99-cent rental!!!

imdeebea It may be the dumbest movie I have seen. It started off confusing. Then there was the scene where the kid tells mom he masturbated. The dog got away. Then he came back, after Jack Black admitted he was a pedophile while cutting down the tree. There was an unnecessary character, the daughter of someone, and she was nearly killed by that tree. Another dog was hit and nearly killed by a car. The crazy girl getting married said I love you, then she said I hate you. I love you. I hate you, and your sister and I talk behind your back. The adults spoke to the children like they were adults, which is not very believable. I lost precious time to this movie. I want it back. I just feel dirty now. My girlfriend says the guy made another movie, and I said he should have quit while he was ahead. Then she tells me the other movie came after this one! That is unbelievable. I don't see why actors would line up for these roles.