SummaryA woman wins an all-expenses trip to a company's gorgeous "institute" outside of Florence, and also the chance to meet the restaurant chain's wealthy and charismatic owner. She finds a different adventure than the one she imagined.
SummaryA woman wins an all-expenses trip to a company's gorgeous "institute" outside of Florence, and also the chance to meet the restaurant chain's wealthy and charismatic owner. She finds a different adventure than the one she imagined.
Amusing but the most lightweight of the five diverse features he’s made so far, it finds other members of the Baena gang (Aubrey Plaza, Molly Shannon) fleshing out an eccentric ensemble, many playing characters as unpredictable as Brie’s is straight-laced.
A great cast and superior production quality weren't enough to penetrate the strange barrier created in the editing and direction between dramedy, parody and romantic mystery. By not committing to a particular genre it failed to excite in any particular area. It was fun to watch as a comedy at points I suppose though.
Spin Me Round's funny performances may not make it all add up, let alone cover up the script and editing flaws, but you can't ask for everything, after all, this movie lets you know from the start, that refinement isn't its thing, and while that probably doesn't entirely undermine it, it also means that the overall results are mediocre, regardless of whether you can have some fun for a while.
You have to know how to accept that what is not cooked properly will not really succeed no matter how hard you try.
How much fun you'll have depends a lot on how much you're willing to compromise to ignore its flaws and focus mostly on what it does well.
Not that I had a bad time watching this movie, but if I didn't have a good time either, then I don't know how best to rate it.
While Baena and Brie, who wrote the film together, don’t exactly flip the script on this seemingly well-trod subgenre, the duo (plus a star-packed cast) certainly add some spice to it.
I adore Plaza as a unique and magnetic actor, but she wasn’t given enough to work with here. Likewise, for the usual affable yet conflicted characters that Brie is so good at portraying, there’s not enough meat on the bones of the role here for her to sink her teeth into. Spin Me Round is like going out to dinner and expecting an authentic Italian restaurant but instead ending up at the Olive Garden.
Spin Me Round is a nice-try attempt at a shapeshifting, fish-out-of-water rom-com that was probably funny in the room—but in the end, it doesn’t quite come together as a movie.
The gang's all here for Spin Me Round, and hopefully the ensemble enjoyed the filmmaking process, as the end result is an odd, laughless, meandering comedy that's not entertaining enough to be engaging, or gifted with enough character insight to justify its aimless length.
I saw a screening of this at SXSW Film earlier this year. I like several of the people involved and the actors do their best but it is not a very good movie. I wish I remembered the specifics better but it's basically problems with the story and tone as I recall. I'm not writing this to slam them but to save others.
Spin me round and shoot me through the back of the head. "Who cares what anyone thinks of this movie it's our little production, our little piece of history." It's a pretentious pompous piece of crap. Worst movie I've seen since Baby Driver.