The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) – 5/10 adventure romance movie review

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Cast / crew Producer: Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. Producer: John Goldwyn Actor and Producer Greenland Air Passenger: Stuart Cornfeld Kristen Wiig: Cheryl Melhoff Shirley MacLaine: Edna Mitty Adam Scott: Ted Hendricks Kathryn Hahn: Odessa Mitty Patton Oswalt: Todd Maher Adrian Martinez: Hernando Ólafur Darri Ólafsson: Helicopter Pilot Sean Penn: Sean O’Connell Actor, Director and Producer: Ben Stiller Walter Mitty: Ben Stiller Screen Story and Screenplay Writer: Steven Conrad Short Story Writer: James Thurber

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) Walter Mitty is prone to zoning out and imagining a more exciting life for himself and his romantic crush, coworker Cheryl Melhoff. When he needs to find a lost photo negative for the cover of Life magazine, instead of looking in the most obvious place, he embarks on a crazy real-life adventure. 5/10 It feels mean to give a virtually non-violent, positive, good-natured movie an average score but it never really engages the viewer beyond the most perfunctory level. Mitty’s flights of fantasy are somewhat bewildering and the real adventure has no impact; it looks less impressive than it should given the scenarios and locations and feels flat. Additionally, the plot and most of the events feel very unconvincing; whether this is by design or not (i.e., if the majority of the movie is a flight of fantasy) isn’t really the point as it is still important to suspend the audience’s disbelief. The best flight of fantasy, and probably strongest moment, is one where Kristen Wiig appears and sings a song and Ben Stiller gets on a real helicopter; no special effects, no explosions, no frenetic action editing. This movie contains bad language, strong violence Classified PG by BBFC. Parental Guidance.