This is 40

The movie: This Is 40

The Drink: Agavales 100% agave tequila. In a flask I got for free from a giant gift pack of vodka

This is a great movie to see if you are single. It was not really that great, but it was highly informative. It was like a well done documentary on the earth's most boring animals. Now, I am not sure if all you married people with children are really constantly on edge, balanced precariously on tipping point between fights about really lame stuff, but it makes for good T.V.

The main characters were sad. Paul Rudd's usual charming dorkiness was replaced by middle class stress and emasculation. His wife is so incredibly annoying and obviously blazed on prescription meds, which is the only reason I can come up with to explain her slurred speech and slow, painfully confused way in which she goes about life.

After seeing this film, I totally understand the preoccupation that society has with post-apocalyptic scenarios. With scene after scene of people applying earth shattering importance to their mundane diets and arguing about having to sell their house while talking about who should cater their 40^th birthday party, I admit I was hoping for a meteor to land on the mansion, um, er, “house” or maybe the earth to open up to swallow the BMW and Lexus in the drive way so that maybe they could think about being 40 is better than being a pile of smoking hamburger under a meteor. When one of the daughters is having a freak out about having to play outside and not use the Wi-Fi anymore, it would've been pretty sweet if a zombie had shuffled out of the bushes to chew on her neck or maybe on the mom's annoying face. Seriously, her face looks like she is constantly sucking on a mildly electrified lemon. There is something about a scene where a man is at the end of his rope and rides off in a blaze of anger, but remembers to put on his expensive helmet that makes me feel like a bad ass for doing pretty much nothing. 

     I actually liked this movie, sort of.  It was like watching a documentary about Hurricane Katrina or the Japanese earthquake.  Horrible to behold, but you walk away glad it wasn't you.