Don't think twice

 

Don't think twice

I found out about this movie watching a podcast by the director in which Questlove was talking about the movie. It centers on a small time theatre improv group in New York and what happens to it when one of their members, Jack (Keegan-Michael Key) is hired by The Weekend Live, which is the Saturday Night Live simile in this fictional New York. You get to see how he and the others deal with this rift, how his relationship with Sam (Gillian Jacobs) evolves, and how it forces the rest of the group to reassess where they are in their lives. It's an endearing movie, supposedly a comedy although while the characters laugh often, the audience not so much. But I must be getting old, because it all felt a bit fake to me. Apart from Gillian Jacobs' character whose arc seemed both believable and true, the rest just felt a bit phony. I don't think it's a bad movie, but I may be too cynical to enjoy it fully at face value.