Divorce is complicated. Even at the age of twenty-something sans kids. And such is the case for Celeste (Rashida Jones) and Jesse (Andy Samberg) who met in high school, married young and are growing apart. Now thirty, Celeste is a professional woman, heading up a consulting firm (hell, even Elijah Wood works for her.) Jesse is unemployed and in no particular rush to do anything with his life. Celeste is convinced that divorcing Jesse is the right thing to do – she’s on
her way up, he’s on his way nowhere, well except for the couch, and if they do it now instead of later, they can remain supportive friends. Or so they think.
This movie plays out like an annoying SNL skit which would make sense since that’s where Sandberg found his roots and should remain. Jones, on the other hand, sparkles and can really command a screen (all those close-ups) though it’s hard to like her for tolerating him this long (especially when she plays into his childhood antics.) Co-dependency takes on new meaning in a film about moving out, and moving on or in other words: I love you but not quite, I don’t want you but I don’t want anyone else to have you either. When a situation forces the two to realize that in order to truly love someone, you might just have to let go. While the film is substance-free, it manages to take an original and youthful approach to remind us that love and heartbreak come in different shapes and sizes. Two tiaras