just watch it!

Disturbing yet enthralling

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

What supposedly was described as one of the best comedies of that year, "Don't Think Twice" instead turned out to be an average drama.Fueled by Keegan-Michael Key's performance as a improv actor aspiring to become a regular cast member of a "Saturday Night Live" type of show, what felt that could have been his actual real life climb into the industry, the movie serves as a look behind the scenes at the relationship between actors and the disbandment of a tight group of friends.The premise of the movie is good, but at the end it does not feel fulfilled, lacking a conclusion.

A mumblecore-style comedy drama about dealing with the success of your peers while you struggle on. This is a distinctly thirtysomething dilemma, where your youth is already lagging behind you but you haven't quite given up on trying to attain the ideal life you want for yourself.As with any kind of mumblecore movie - where the focus is on characters interacting in seemingly improvised scenes and creating natural conversational rhythms - it has a triviality to the whole experience as it tries to mine something profound from relatively insubstantial material. Yet somehow, 'Don't Think Twice' does resonate beyond its small cinematic ambitions because all the characters of the improv acting troupe are likable people and feel real in all of their insecurities and eccentricities, while also maintaining a funny and believable group dynamic. This is a character piece made up of selected moments with a thin but defined plot taking us through the various assortment of situations.Writer/director Mike Birbiglia has clearly allowed for his own cast to improvise through many of the scenes. Usually, films that are made up of scenes where actors go off-book to create their own moments end up feel meandering and indulgent - yes Paul Feig and Judd Apatow I'm talking about you two cufflinks - but due to the subject matter at play, it not only makes complete sense for this particular film but it also helps to make Birbiglia's disjointed drop-in/drop-out narrative-style all the more involving.It's a must-see for anyone who works in the arts, in whatever capacity, but it might also appeal to anyone who has ever seen fracture lines appear in their friendship groups as a result of growing up and growing apart. There's an insightful honesty at play here and when it's not plucking on those painful chords of truth, it's just a charming and absorbing story about friendship, failure and success.

Did the people who scored this low even see the same movie I did? This is a fantastic, lovely, bittersweet, heartwarming and charming indie film about friendship, love, and improv. It's directed by Mike Bribiglia and produced by Ira Glass, with some fantastic talented actors in front of the camera. I highly recommend, if you're reading this, that you see it!

This is amusing and has a few moments, but no laugh out loud moments during this film.The story is of a comedy cast trying to make it in the competitive New York market.It does digress and veers off track – sometimes becoming overly melodramatic. There's a love relationship, one of the cast has a dying father, another meets up with a high school sweet-heart who is pregnant. If it would have stuck to the nightly comedy routine and the tensions within the group it would have been more unified. So after awhile what exactly are we left watching? Never felt very engaged by any of the characters.The ending is overly schmaltzy with all participating in a group hug, but in the prior scenes there were fierce and combative arguments...Good for a quiet weekday evening.