Away We Go Movie Reviews

Away We Go, directed by Sam Mendes is a sweet little film about a happy but more-or-less unprepared couple awaiting the birth of their first child. John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph star as Burt and Verona, unmarried thirty somethings who've settled down within a short distance of Burt's parents, only to discover that the selfish grandparents-to-be are selling the house and relocating to Belgium. No reason for Burt and Verona to live in Colorado anymore

With director Sam Mendes, you can always expect the unexpected. He has done the dark comedy (American Beauty), the gangsta flick (Road to Perdition), the brutally introspective (Jarhead) and the off-beat drama (Revolutionary Road). In an age when most prefer to play safe, he is happy experimenting with genres. And that's worthy of admiration. In Away We Go as well, Mendes walks a different path, crafting a movie that smells like a road flick but is actually a drama without drama.

Sam Mendes seems to have an inside track on the way Americans live their lives. 'American Beauty', 'Revolutionary Road' and now 'Away We go', Sam's take maybe true pictures alright but they are just too American to be of much interest to a less morally deprived world. 'Away We Go' is a road movie of sorts, the central characters-an expectant couple Burt and Verona (John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph), rootless and clueless as they are, travel from place to place