Film Review – Don’t Look Up

Writer/director Adam McKay used to make the same kind of comedies all the time (“Anchorman,” “Step Brothers,” “Talladega Nights”), and now he makes the same kind of social criticism and political movies all the time (“The Big Short,” “Vice”). With “Don’t Look Up,” McKay remains fixated on a semi-satiric take on American life and order, but he aims bigger with his latest project, which investigates the end of the world and all the madness that goes along with accepting the truth. “Don’t Look Up” tries to fashion something close to a farce with the material, but McKay enjoys a stickier sense of tone, delivering a picture that’s after big laughs with broad antics, and it’s also examining the reality of an extinction level event occurring in our screwball time, keeping behaviors accurate even when they go full cartoon. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com