The apocalypse is just three weeks away, your wife has left
you and you regret most of the major decisions you’ve ever made. What do you
do? Some people try to fuck everyone they can, others drink to forget. A few
carry on as normal and some riot. Dodge Peterson (Steve Carell) decides he’s
going to seek out his old High School sweetheart after discovering a letter
from her telling him that he was the love of her life. With him he takes his
kooky English neighbour Penny (Keira Knightley) who he just met with the
promise that he can get her a on a plane to be with her family before the end.
Seeking a Friend for
the End of the World is a sweet indie type of movie with its heart in the
right place. It features two watchable leads and a nice story but is short of
laughs and far too formulaic. It was a movie that I’d hoped to see in the
cinema but my girlfriend’s dislike of Carell and Knightley coupled with a short
theatrical run put a stop to that. It is a film which hasn’t enriched my life
and won’t stay with me long but was worth the hundred minutes of my life.
