![]() The party scene lacked a negative, the dad missing the talent show as a result of the party was more interesting. The producers and director obviously hoped this would appeal to mainstream audiences and I did like the film at certain points, the brother relationship should've been explored for one point. The film is short and at times frustratingly simple in the storyline, I just had no real investment and felt like the film was too glossy. I can't fault the actors, they have interesting roles and they give each supporting role something unique. The main issue with the film is the lack of depth and it tries to be too commercial, I think a darker more personal story was the direction to go. ![]() A Universal release.The casting of the Green Day front man was an intriguing idea and while skeptical at first, my fears were squashed within the first 20 minutes. MPAA Rating: unrated, with alcohol abuse, smoking, adult situationsĬast: Billie Joe Armstrong, Selma Blair, Fred Armisen, Judy Greer, Dallas RobertsĬredits: Written and directed by Lee Kirk. It plays like a reality TV pilot that’s a little too real (boring) for its own good. ![]() Writer-director Lee Kirk’s script manages a few laugh-out-loud lines and moments, and Armstrong has an offhanded charm that plays well in a role tailor-made for him.īut “Ordinary World” is a little too enamored of the phrase “Truth in advertising.” It’s run of the mill, humdrum, “ordinary” in its set up, the “ticking clock” (Can Perry polish off the party in time to get her new guitar to his daughter before the big elementary school talent show?), and temptations (pricey booze, punking out, Judy Greer). “It’s AWESOME that you still say ‘Awesome!'” No, there’s to be no punk music on that floor, even if that means his pals complain “You’re just no fun any more.”Īnd yes, that’s his old punk flame, now Joan Jett’s manager (J udy Greer) he runs into in the lobby. No, they don’t allow them in the suites at the Drake. He calls his drummer ( Fred Armisen of “Saturday Night Live” and “Portlandia”) and announces a party. So he takes his settlement cash from the store, marches over to The Drake Hotel and gets the biggest suite in the joint. Perry needs a break from “Dad mode.” He needs to remember “the old days.” He’d love to “get the band back together.” The other dads at school want him in their “Dad’s Group.” His brother ( Chris Messina) is angling to buy his perpetually tardy butt out of the family hardware store.Īnd the wife has forgotten his birthday, a big one - his 40th. But now Perry’s the guy who yells, “How many times I gotta tell you, USE an ashtray?” when friends come over. He’s still got the wild mop of dyed hair. Now, the only music he makes is to mock-explain the expletives he and mom ( Selma Blair) still let fly in front of their tweenage daughter and toddler. Twenty years before, Perry pounded through sets at assorted punk-friendly clubs in greater New York. The movie reminds you of a perhaps unfair knock at those “American Idiots,” Green Day. In “Ordinary World,” Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong plays an aging punk - husband and dad years past his punk-rock peak - who decides the most punk thing he can still manage is to blow a wad of his hardware store-job cash on a party for himself in a high-end New York hotel room.
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