Larry Crowne Movie Screening

I was invited to movie screening by Advertlets on the movie Larry Crowne. I  was hesitated to watch it at first because of the actors. I mean Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts are not exactly actors in my era. However, I'm glad i decided to watch it at the end. Read more on the review below!

The story revolves around Larry Crown (as the title suggest), a widower who works at a local big-box company, and a superstar team leader, until the company decided to down-sized him due to him lacking proper qualification except graduating from high school. Larry serves the navy for 20 years as a cook and worked with the company ever since. Not knowing what to do on his mortgages, he decided to head to college to obtain proper qualification. Coincidently, he fell in love with the teacher who taught him in his public speaking class.

The director ( Tom Hanks ) infuse great laughter in most of the scenes especially during Larry’s public speaking class where most of the students were rather not serious on the class. During his Economic class, Tom manage to infuse laughter with the character of a cynic Japanese lecturer who are obsessed with self-laugh jokes that could only be understood by him ( in the class, that is).

The romantic scenes between Larry and his lecturer was rather stale however as most scenes are there to just complement the whole show instead of adding a stronger impact onto the plot. There isnt any real intimate scenes between both of them except for the end of the show and when the lecturer was drunk. During the latter scene, the intimate scenes were rather more of a “potong stim” moment. The director should have used that scene to add a stronger ‘presence’ of love between them and create a better impact for the film.

In the end, what matters most is that it provides down to earth story line and great laughter all around. It was an enjoyable movie and its really straight forward. No thought provoking scene, no complicated dialogues. It’s a layback, care free, laughable comedy that is sure to tickle your funny bone.

A simple and direct movie. Some might find the plot too thin and not interesting. However, it is compensate by a world class performance by both Hanks and Roberts. Do not miss it, head to your local cinemas now! 

I will like to thank Advertlets and Nusantara Edaran Filem again for the invitation.