Vintage

Larry Crowne (2011) is a fairly boring romantic comedy starring an equally safe and boring Tom Hanks and Juliua Roberts.  It was so safe and catering to the times that I felt it was their feel good homage to the working class stiff, in which case it bordered on insulting. 

Hanks and Roberts are mulit-millionaires.  It is nice to think they have can teach the working stiff, say some guy at a local Home Depot-type store, who gets shafted by corporate, that all he needs to do is go back to college and ramp up his skill set while maintaining a positve outlook on things then all else is small potatoes.  Were it that easy for most folks.  Must be nice to dole out this advice to the common folk while raking in millions.

There really was nothing cool about Hanks character in this film.  He was a complete dork.  He traded in his wheels for a dorky moped and started to commute to work with a stupid little helmet and his equally unmanly mode of transporation. 

If John Wayne were alive he would have jumped down from his horse and dong-slapped Hanks across his dorky helmet. 

As the trite story would have it, Roberts' character falls for Larry Crowne's unquestionable talent for acting like Forrest Gump without the interesting intelligence or stupidity.  This was boring, average Gump. The flick has a nice ending and Larry Crowne gets the gal and blah, blah, blah, blah.