It started off kind of... off. Hard to explain. Sometimes Steve Carell's humour doesn't strike right. And... the timing was good, just... maybe I wasn't in the mood. Some of the stuff was like The Office before he left.
The Office was great when it started. Smart humour. Gotta think about it. But as it aged it left that British humour, and became slap-sticky. Like The Three Stooges.
Nothing wrong with that, just... I can only deal for so long.
But as the movie moved on, though marked as a comedy, it got deep. And emotional, and touched that drama genre too. And the depth reached the comedy side too, which was fantastic.
Before the end you find yourself falling in love with the main characters, and feeling what they do. They acted their parts well. And what got my heart in my throat was Dodge giving Penny the greatest gift he could give as the world came to an end.
Keira Knightley showed that she can play an in depth character, who doesn't need saving, dressed in modern clothes, while still sporting that hotter than the apocalypse accent.
A must see.
