a5c7b9f00b A suburban couple becomes embroiled in an international espionage plot when they discover that their seemingly perfect new neighbors are government spies. Typical suburban husband and wife, Jeff and Karen Gaffney (Zach Galifianakis and Isla Fisher) meet incredible new neighbors Tim and Natalie Jones (Jon Hamm and Gal Gadot). Of course, Tim and Natalie are not the typical suburban couple, because they appear on the movie poster holding guns over the words &quot;License to Kill.&quot; Jeff and Karen figure this out a few minutes into the movie.<br/><br/>Shootings, car chases, explosions. Action. But no surprises. No tension, no drama. And comedy without humor. It is a comedy, after all, so the lack of humor kind of kills the whole thing.<br/><br/>Galifianakis is an idiot through the entire thing. I suppose some people might laugh at idiocy. Fisher goes back and forth. Most of the time, she&#39;s an idiot. But occasionally she&#39;s not.<br/><br/>Hamm and Gadot aren&#39;t idiots, but they&#39;re neither dramatic nor comedic. They&#39;re not given great lines. But, really, they&#39;re just not good enough, they don&#39;t have enough charisma, to carry a role. To be fair, it looks like the actors have the innate talent. I&#39;d blame the director more than anyone.<br/><br/>There&#39;s a pointless brief but noticeable pause, when Jeff has made an important discovery that he really must tell someone, but he&#39;s not telling anyone, for no particular reason. There are numerous things that sort of happen, but you know can&#39;t really have happened, and then immediately you find out that they really didn&#39;t happen. There&#39;s a scene that has no point to be in the movie except to set up a car chase. That&#39;s basically how the whole movie goes. And then they just wrap it up and the movie is over.<br/><br/>Three stars because, while it isn&#39;t good, it isn&#39;t offensively bad. For example, it&#39;s infinitely better than Rogue One. At least with this movie, it&#39;s supposed to be a comedy, so it&#39;s understandable that they don&#39;t care so much if things don&#39;t make sense, because all they&#39;re trying to do is be funny. And it&#39;s understandable that they don&#39;t care so much about character development, because all they&#39;re trying to do is be funny. I mean, the minimum is 1 star for the worst $#1t. This movie gets an additional 1 star for Gal Gadot in lingerie for 15 minutes for no reason except to have Gal Gadot in lingerie (Rogue One doesn&#39;t get that star). And 1 more star for being not the worst thing I&#39;ve ever seen (Rogue One doesn&#39;t doesn&#39;t get that star either). Keeping Up with the Joneses is a good movie with a reasonably well developed plot and a fantastic comedic cast. The highlight of the film is certainly the connection and chemistry between the four main cast members, all of the individual relationships between Zach Galifanakis, Isla Fisher, Jon Hamm and Gal Gadot is what makes this movie watchable. They all have great comedic timing with one another, it was clear they had trust in each other.<br/><br/>I did feel the plot did not gofara viewer would expect a film about spies to go. The final act is very underwhelming,we are expecting this big blow out, but it actually ends up being very straight forward and predictable, nothing shocking or truly exciting really occurs. <br/><br/>As wellthat, it simply is notfunnyit should have been. I had higher hopes with a cast like this, I was expecting a laugh a minute sort of movie, but there are several scenes without a single good joke in there. The writing came acrosssomewhat lazy,if they gave up halfway through. <br/><br/>It does show that a film that is verging on mediocrity can be saved simply by the sincere chemistry between its lead cast. While it is certainly flawed, Keeping up with the Joneses is still mindless fun, worth the watch if you are looking for a good comedy, but do not go out of your way to see it. <br/><br/>A suburban couple discover their new neighbours are undercover spies. <br/><br/>Best Performance: Jon Hamm An unfortunate misfire that has the odd moment of charm and the odder chuckle, but otherwise isn’t worth keeping up with.
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