Dodge (Steve Carrell) has just found out the world is ending. Penny (Kiera Knightley) is just plain miserable. In Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World...they team up and hit the road to find Dodge's ex-girlfriend who's "the one that got away." This is not a straight comedy. It has its moments of drama and this is where the movie really shines.
See....the film with its obvious end of the world and sex jokes fails. However, the movie is actually very well made when being downbeat. The film really picks up in the third act when it turns into a film in the vein of last year's Melancholia. While I didn't much care for that film...I did respect its humorless approach. That's what made it somewhat fascinating and thought provoking. In this film...we get that approach for the last half an hour along with a surprise appearance by one of the best actors working in Hollywood whom I choose not to give away.
Carrell and Knightley-while being completely different people have-dare I say..chemistry. They are both very good actors and while their characters do not seem to belong together..they bring particular charms to their characters. They are both so likable that we can't help but believe that these two sweet people belong together.
The film is very weird..a point I must make before I conclude this review. When I said this is not a straight comedy I mean even the humor is extremely weird. Like I said...it has its fair share of obvious, normal jokes but the film is so not what you would expect from any of the actors in this film. It is one of the weirdest movies I have seen, in fact.
I can't quite recommend Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World. It is too weird and simultaneously obvious for its own good. However..the third act (as in the last half an hour) is good enough to save this film from complete doom.
(2 out of 5 Stars, The film is rated R for language including sexual references, some drug use and brief violence)
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