Keeping Up with the Joneses
Published February 17, 2017
Film info
- Title Keeping Up with the Joneses
- Director Greg Mottola
- Year 2016
- Run time 1hr 45m
- Genres Action, Comedy
- Tagline They lived a normal life... until the Joneses moved in
An ordinary suburban couple finds it’s not easy keeping up with the Joneses - their seemingly perfect new neighbors - especially when they discover Mr. and Mrs. 'Jones' are covert spies embroiled in international espionage.
Live blog
| Time | Comment |
|---|---|
| 1:18 | Ugh, those Keep Calm posters. |
| 4:59 | Just Dance is a great use of an empty house. |
| 8:54 | First rule of trust exercise - define the destination. |
| 12:01 | Is giving neighbours presents a thing? Not sure I would ever think of doing that. |
| 13:25 | Junetober fest makes no sense but I love it. |
| 16:40 | “Maybe I should show you how to throw like a girl.” YES! |
| 22:04 | I feel like Tim Jones woulnd’t be an easily searchable name, though. |
| 23:21 | There are home brewing shops? |
| 27:14 | “I’d probably just get in trouble from Corporate.” |
| 35:49 | Unique way of cracking walnuts. |
| 41:53 | Couldn’t you show the police the bug? |
| 43:06 | Power walking makes you look so weird. |
| 43:44 | “Never judge a woman by her spice rack.” |
| 54:12 | The comma is important. “This is my wife, Karl.” |
| 56:01 | “Get in the car and I will explain everything… mostly.” |
| 1:05:21 | Zach always seems to end up being the needy one who wants friends. |
| 1:06:55 | I forgot about the explosion! |
| 1:12:07 | Zach and Isla are tiny compared to the spies. |
| 1:14:13 | The British teeth thing bugs me. Natural teeth, thank you. |
| 1:26:31 | The boss! |
| 1:29:11 | APPLE WATCH. Spies wear Apple Watches. |
Conclusions
Blatantly just Mr & Mrs Smith with the comedy ramped up, it took me a while to warm up to this film but when I did, I couldn’t stop laughing. It got off to a slow start and I think the key was to get the two couples working together in the limited way that they could - that’s where the comedy really started happening. I could have done with slightly less of no one believing Isla, and definitely less of the whole snake restaurant business.
Most of the reviews are pretty bad, but I thought it was quite good. It was a pretty tame role for Zach but it was a great cast, and they worked together well after an intentionally frosty start.
Rating: 4/5
Rating: 4 / 5