When I first saw the teaser and posters for Barb & Star go to Vista Del Mar there was absolute zero interest in seeing the movie, I thought that looked like the stupidest worse thing ever. Well now I watched the movie and cannot believe it took me this long to finally rent it from Amazon Video. I absolutely loved how the director, brought the world to life and makes it apparent early on this is not in reality as we know it that this is a surreal world that Barb and Star live in. Also I felt that everyone in the cast and crew knew what movie they were making and committed to the concept. Will this movie be for everyone probably now, but I challenge someone to watch this and not at least crack a little smirk at a joke or gag at some point. Barb (Annie Mumolo) and Star (Kristen Wiig) are two middle age women living the mid-west who live in their own little world that only the two of them get until the are laid off from their job and question what they are doing with themselves which leads them to go on a vacation to Vista Del Mar, Florida. This is the Florida that I wish I lived in, bright colors and when you walk into a hotel they burst into song and dance until the bubble is burst that it’s the wrong hotel your checking into. Yup, things don’t go 100% right for the two women when they arrive, that does not stop them from finding the good in things, these two are like little kids that go through a day living in their own world and finding the positive in every negative. Barb and Star also bump into Jamie Edgar Paget (Jamie Dornan) who is in town to plant a microchip that will guide killer mosquitos to the town and kill all the residents because his villainous boss whom he also loves, Sharon Gordon Fisherman also played by Kristen Wigg, was humiliated when she was younger and wants her revenge. Yup, it is absolutely bonkers story line and I cannot go to much into what happens without giving away too much. I listened to a podcast with director, Josh Greenbaum and said Kristen Wiig descried the movie to him as Romy & Michelle’s High School Reunion meets Airplane and he added in Top Secret and that is absolutely the best way to describe this movie. This was Josh Greenbaum's first feature directorial film and I cannot wait to see what else he can bring to the table, this feels like that spoof/campy film along the lines of The Naked Gun that we have seen tried to be done lately, but fall flat because the jokes and gags don’t land or its horribly edited, this to me is one of those films that the stars aligned right for every piece of the puzzle to fall into place perfectly.
Now available where ever
you rent digital movies
