Virag's Movie Reviews: This Is 40 (2012)

This Is 40 is easily one of the nastiest movies I've ever seen.  The characters populating this film were ugly, stupid, mean, and hateful.  Judd Apatow is arguably the worst screen writer of his generation; nothing in this movie makes sense about an exceedingly unappealing couple with money troubles who never appear to work at all, spend insane amounts of money on the most pointless luxuries, and live in a huge house in one of the most expensive markets in the United States.  Apatow's directing of this overlong vanity stroke fest was almost as embarrassing as his casting of his shrew of a wife in the role of a purportedly very attractive 40 year old woman.  Suspension of disbelief doesn't cover that; Leslie Mann is a horrible and stupendously unfunny actress who is unattractive far beyond her looks.  I did feel bad for some things in this movie.  Paul Rudd wears a bunch of cool band t-shirts that must have been mortified when the film came out.  Graham Parker looked worn down by the awfulness of the whole exercise.  Albert Brooks and John Lithgow were the best thing in the movie, and they should have been given their own film written and directed by a decent filmmaker in which they killed and dismembered everyone else in This Is 40 in the first 10 minutes and then went on to a much better film.  People who love garbage love the shit Judd Apatow forces out.  The rest of the species deserves better than his insipid nonsense.