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Table 19. Critical

Director Jeffrey Blitz has not made a feature film in a decade, and there is a very good reason for this. “Table 19” it is his first big-screen effort since he directed “RocketScience”in 2007, and is an attempt to regain his rhythm after years in television doing comedies as prestigious as The Office, Parks and Recreation or Trial & Error, since under the command of a script co-concebido to four hands by Jay and Mark Duplass . An attempt to overblown and undernourished transform a wedding reception in a study on the diversity of personalities that you can find in the same treat.

“19 table” is not funny and is certainly not profound, stuck in a neutral tone with haunting, virtually inexplicable characterizations and random behavior, helping to interrupt repeatedly what initially appears to be a farce that soon becomes awkwardly something deeper. BLITZ is lost, trying to do something meaningful with a simple material and a cast of previously scarce development.

It is a great wedding day, and Eloise (Anna Kendrick) is not sure she should go. Failing as a bridesmaid to bride, Eloise has significant problems with the godfather of Teddy (Wyatt Russell) wedding, with the experience of an embarrassing breakdown just weeks before the ceremony. While Teddy has returned with his first girlfriend (Amanda Crew), who has usurped the lead role as a bridesmaid at the wedding that she herself was responsible for helping organize to Eloise (more specifically how would the layouts) Eloise is stuck in table 19, along with the former nanny of the bride Jo (Jun Squibb) , Walter (Stephen Merchant), a relative of murky past, a couple who is in crisis, formed by Jerry (Craig Robinson) and Bina (Lisa Kudrow), and Renzo (Tony Revolori). The losers gradually realize how little they care about the development of the party, the Group found a new adventure when they gather around Eloise, which is experiencing the worst day of his life, trapped in their search for love, hoping to alleviate their anxiety with Huck (Thomas Cocquerel) unexpected attention.

One of the main problems of table 19 is how to simulate human behavior, because never understands very well how these disparate personalities should interact with each other. The script of slow tone, brings together a table of weirdos to deal with the humiliation and the anxieties of a controversial wedding celebration, following the history separated throughout the day. However, the simple math is not enough so that production comes to fruition, that tries to shake things with a mixture of humor and pathos, Blitz, trying to make a statement with sincere about the power of love while he massages the Consciousnesses of their characters too rigidly.

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Table 19 is not directed, is a succession of scenes that are allowed to wander freely in any way convinced the Director that enough whims, plastic feeling and snacks of the background story are enough to help this disorderly go through a real film task.

Eloise has a genuine problem. Initially does not know if you want to attend a wedding planned partially before undergoing its rupture detachment from the bride, so you pass the day trying to make jealous Teddy flirting with Huck, a spectator of the wedding. Huck is a character who is presented as an important figure in history, but it disappears abruptly, without that explains us clearly the abandonment of their main role, only to appear in the final act for buttoning a subplot that never materialized.

Something similar happens with Renzo, whose relationship with the wedding is not explained in detail, while its mission of having casual sex in the festivities is creepy, worsening even more when his mother (an invisible Margo Martindale to the voice) is the driving force behind using a woman purely sexual purposes. Walter is a convict who was smart enough to steal a small fortune to his brother, but cannot speak in public by his introverted easy social situations, with the script extending the self-destructive skill of the character where it can. Bina and Jerry are experiencing vague marital problems and plans of infidelity, but why the reasons for executing a mission so risky, in a wedding that is located on an island in Michigan, with both spouses in plain view is never explained.

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There are more inconsistencies along the way (gang blasting cake wedding, replacing it with another of the reception, without what nobody realizes?), but the majority of the table 19 focuses on encounters between characters one-dimensional, cheats playing closely these damaged people and their easily solvable problems. Blitz cannot avoid a feeling of developing a sitcom to the use, it played to a broad and melodramatic, style while avoiding problems of betrayal and loneliness, with terrible scripting develops moments to celebrate the tenacity and teamwork of the losers of the wedding, to become repellent people who unnecessarily complicate their own lives. “19 table” should be an experience of viewing advantageous and moving, not a prolonged trial of frustration and disappointment, losing time actors in acceptable performances in bad ideas and bad cinematic skill.

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