What I've Watched: Meet Bill

Quick show of hands ... Who here likes roadkill? Ok, I see one hand up, but that person is a weirdo and I am not taking his opinion seriously. But the rest of you seem like (semi)normal people who clearly are not fans of roadkill.

Roadkill gets run over time and time again, quickly getting mashed and unrecognizable as the original creature it used to be. Meet Bill is incredibly similar. It's a over-worn tale of a middle-aged guy who doesn't know what his life has become, so he starts living a whole new "independent" life, which naturally means hanging out with a teenager and a younger chick. These movies don't bother me as a genre, because when they are done right (Lost in Translation, Broken Flowers, just to skim the surface) they can be comical, moderately introspective and don't come across as shallow. That's pretty much the total opposite of Meet Bill.

Aaron Eckhart was way better in this type of movie when it was Thank You For Smoking. Elizabeth Banks has been much better in just about any other movie she's been in. Jessica Alba can be hot at times, but when it's time for quiet scenes where she has to carry it with dialogue, you'll have better success finding details in fog. Watch it if you want, but I warned you ahead of time.