Saturday, January 9, 2016

Joy: It's About Inventing the Wonder Mop

I checked out the most recent David Russell + Jennifer Lawrence collaboration. It's the story of the woman, who despite great odds and a family that was a total dumpster fire, manages to create the wonderfully successful Wondermop. The story spends a very long time detailing how bad her life was for awhile. Her mom is a shut-in who watches soap operas constantly and primarily stays in the same room for days. Her dad (Bobby DeNiro) is working on his 3rd failed marriage when you meet him. Her ex-husband of two years is a failing singer who still lives in her basement. Her grandma is apparently the only sane and normal person in the family. She has two children, though her daughter is the only one that garners any screen time for some reason. In my opinion too much time was spent on the bad and not enough on the upswing of success that the Wondermop surely created for her. Bottom Line: 6.3 out of 10. Primarily unimpressive. I like DeNiro, Lawrence, and Cooper in it, but as I mentioned I really felt like the story focused almost entirely on the negatives and hardships instead of triumph.

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