Peep World

Peep World is an enjoyable film but also an empty one. By the end, you have a feeling that you sat through an incredibly pointless movie, even if you did have some fun along the way. Is it necessarily worth a watch? Probably not, but I can't say that I regret sitting through it, especially since it only runs for approximately 80 minutes. It doesn't really satisfy though, and left me feeling as if a big finale was planned, but the filmmakers ran out of money and couldn't deliver.

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This was very by the books, but not a bad movie. It felt like a typical indie dramedy, where a family is fucked up, some 'quirky' things happen (in this case, porn shops and RAGING BONERS), and everyone eventually lets out how they feel at the end. It's depressing that it's so impressively average though, considering C. Hall is always a pleasure, Silverman is funny, Mara is gorgeous, and Greer has a charm about her. Talent doesn't lead to much here though. Again, not awful, just 'normal.'

[Unrated]

This felt like a really dark, charmless take on The Royal Tenenbaums. The characters are all struggling siblings suffering from arrested development, daddy issues, & career disappointments. The similarities end there.

Peep World is disappointing. It may have worked better if the characters had spent more (but still not all) of their time in the restaurant, where most of the comedy is to be had; and less time meandering about their lives, which felt like filler, and in fact made it harder to empathise with them. Nothing is actually bad in the film; the cast, acting, comedy is all pretty decent, but you're still left feeling... meh.

Strong individual performances elevate this by the numbers film. It could have been a little deeper as it claims that the characters have incredibly interesting flaws that one of them put in a best selling book, but we don't really see anything too crazy.The ending was also a little to easily wrapped up and didn't feel true to the rest of the story. Certainly watchable, but nothing great.

"The film draws its laughs from the suffering of its characters, knocking them against each other while jury-rigging a spindly plot from their in-fighting." - Jesse Cataldo

This movie does not really break any new ground with the subject of a dysfunctional family but it does have a lot of entertaining moments. The ensemble cast all do well with their roles. The script is not spectacular but it does have some laughs and a few good ideas.

a cast of characters to avoid. Only amusing, likable one was Taraji P. Henson. blech!