Rating of
2.5/4
Going the Distance (2010)
MovieAddict - wrote on 01/30/12
"Maya! Statue!"
Drew Barrymore is Erin, a lonely journalist who encounters Garrett (Justin Long), a talent scout for a record company, on the night he is drowning his sorrows after splitting up with his girlfriend. (There is a lesson in here guys: When your girl friend says she does not want a gift for her birthday, she definitely WANTS a gift for her birthday!) The two start a casual relationship knowing it will only last 6 weeks until her internship ends and she has to get back to San Francisco.
Fast forward six weeks Garret and Erin realize that they want more, and what follows is a romantic comedy chronicling the problems they encounter while trying to conduct a long distance love affair. Determined to keep the romance alive they try everything making full use of the benefits of modern technology from text messages, emails, phone calls, Skyping and even funny crazy phone sex but the distance takes a toll and test their powers of resistance to the limit. (Some may tell you otherwise, but a large part of being together is staying together.)
Garrett has some crazy sidekicks and Christina Applegate, as Erin's sister, round out the cast with some great back-up comedy providing great support and get the biggest laugh at the end of the film. One scene in a dining room was by far the biggest laugh I've had in a long time.
Going the Distance ups the ante with a number of risqué moments guaranteed to offend the more aloof viewers. Presumably, this is a clever ploy to make the film appeal to fans of comedies such as Superbad and The Hangover, which are both well known for their crude but hilarious comedy. But if you are worried about the R-rating, let me reassure you that the bawdy gags are verbal, not visual.
