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- 2018
- Shout! Factory
- 1 h 33 m
- 2018
- Shout! Factory
- 1 h 33 m
Summary Humor Me is a heartfelt father-son light comedy about a struggling playwright (Jemaine Clement) who is forced to move in with his joke-telling dad (Elliot Gould) in a New Jersey retirement community and learns, as his father often says, "life's going to happen, whether you smile or not."
- 2018
- Shout! Factory
- 1 h 33 m
- 2018
- Shout! Factory
- 1 h 33 m
Humor Me
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Summary Humor Me is a heartfelt father-son light comedy about a struggling playwright (Jemaine Clement) who is forced to move in with his joke-telling dad (Elliot Gould) in a New Jersey retirement community and learns, as his father often says, "life's going to happen, whether you smile or not."
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Mixed or Average
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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33% Positive
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44% Mixed
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4 Reviews
22% Negative
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2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
53
33% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
44% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
22% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
If writer-director Sam Hoffman’s charming, well-performed tale feels at all familiar, it’s territory worth revisiting.
Clement channels his wry hangdog humor into a slightly more grounded performance than he often gives. His charm and absurdist tendencies help elevate Nate from a potentially self-centered man-child to a lost soul who is genuinely compelling.
Humor Me manages to earn its audience’s indulgence, if never its full affection.
The movie never gets too deep, which is half of its charm. The other half involves the low-key comic performances by a stellar cast including Annie Potts and Bebe Neuwirth.
Sam Hoffman respects his characters and evinces curiosity about their lives—and these qualities aren't to be taken for granted. But he isn't willing to disrupt his familiar and tightly structured plot.
Writer/director Sam Hoffman's trite dramedy about personal redemption delivers mediocre performances.
Humor Me is essentially the feature film adaption of writer-director Sam Hoffman‘s web series Old Jews Telling Jokes, and much like ideas that are typically created for a web series, the execution of the material appears to be just a bit too lacking to serve the purpose of a full-length film.
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