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Away We Go is a completely awful and boring movie about a bunch of people I couldn't stand to be in the same room with, much less watch a movie about them. It's a hippie road trip movie about an unwed interracial couple who are just a few months away from having their first child. I hated this movie and found not one thing to like about it.

This movie opens with a man going down on his girlfriend. The scene goes on for a couple of long minutes while he comments on changes in her vaginal flavor, then realizes she might be pregnant. It isn't funny or clever, but crude. The whole movie ends up being like that.

John Krasinski (The Office) plays the goofy soon-to-be dad to the child being carried by his girlfriend, who is played by Maya Rudolph of Saturday Night Live. When his wealthy new age hippie parents decide to move away for a two-year stint on the other side of the planet, this makes Krasinski and Rudolph decide to go on a trip to visit friends and family and find a new place to raise their child. What results is a series of encounters with colorful characters that made me want to press the fast forward button on my remote.

The first couple they meet are played Allison Janney and Jim Gaffigan. She's a drunkard who likes to shout incredibly offensive things in public and constantly demeans her children in cruel ways. The woman is a monster, and her kids and husband are numb to it all. Next they run across a new age hippie couple where the woman likes to nurse other people's babies and nearly has a stroke when Krasinski and Rudolph try to give her a baby stroller as a gift. There's nothing charming about these people. Nothing at all.

The next two couples that they run into are a bit more normal in that they aren't extreme characterizations of some stereotype or what-not, but by that point I just didn't give a crap about the movie or anything else associated with it. Krasinski and Rudolph come across as fairly normal people dealing with the fear and uncertainty of their pending parenthood, and I suppose the point of the story was to put these characters in a world surrounded by sad sacks and nutcases just to show what they are up against.

Sam Mendes directed this one, and despite him having an Oscar for American Beauty, I think the only decent movie he's made is Road to Perdition. His Jarhead was a pointless waste of time and I never saw Revolutionary Road because it looked like a depressing puddle of sap. Now I read he's doing the next James Bond movie!

Away We Go has apparently touched a few people and has gotten mostly positive reviews from critics. Personally, I couldn't stand it.

Recommended: No

Suitability For Children: Not suitable for Children of any age