Seeking a Friend for the End of the World: DVD Review

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World: DVD Review

Rating: M
Released by Roadshow Home Ent

Those pesky Mayans, eh?

Predicting the end of the world and then some.

Well, this comedy-drama with Steve Carell and Keira Knightley is a tender piece which looks at what people would do if a massive asteroid was coming on collision course with the world. It's no Armageddon with the disaster scenario living up to expectations and when the plan to destroy it fails, then the end of the world is really coming.

Carell plays Dodge, whose wife leaves him when the news hits. Realising his life's not gone to plan, Dodge ends up befriending Knightley's Penny, who just wants to see her family in England. And when Dodge receives a letter telling him his first love always loved him, he decides that's the push he needs to go and find her.

So the pair end up on a road trip - and I'm sure you can guess the rest.

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World is a quite sweet, tender piece which is all about the two leads rather than everyone else. Carell does a morose, downbeat turn as Dodge and gives it a feeling of quiet desperation and reality; equally, Knightley works well off of him and gives the film a bit of heart. It may ultimately affect you more than you'd expect as well.

While it's a little predictable as to how this will end, the journey is a good one and a quirkier one than you'd expect despite a bit of meandering and uncertainty over where it's going next narratively.

Extras: Making of, trailer, commentary

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