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Oct 21, 2016 · October 21, 2016. 6 min read. “Keeping Up with the Joneses” is basically a revamp of the old Touchstone Pictures formula with some interesting underwear thrown into the mix for good measure. Touchstone, you will recall, was the Disney production entity that hit it big in the ‘80s by taking actors who were familiar faces but had either not ...
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Great, light hearted movie Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/04/24 Full Review Carl B This movie is trying hard to be a tired formula comedy, and fails to even achieve that. It feels ...
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- Greg Mottola
- PG-13
- Zach Galifianakis
Oct 18, 2016 · Isla Fisher, Jon Hamm, Keeping Up with the Joneses, Zach Galifianakis. Film Review: ‘Keeping Up With the Joneses’. Reviewed at Regal E-Walk, October 13, 2016. MPAA Rating: PG-13. Running time ...
- A suburban comedy that delivers exactly what you’d expect. Nothing more, nothing less.
- Verdict
By Alex Welch
Posted: Oct 20, 2016 8:38 pm
It’s been five years since Greg Mottola’s last feature film, Paul, and after making a name for himself with strong, relatable comedies like Adventureland and Superbad, the filmmaker has returned this year with his latest effort in Keeping Up with the Joneses. Featuring a strong ensemble cast including Gal Gadot, Jon Hamm, Zach Galifianakis, and Isla Fisher, Mottola’s latest film is a fairly by-the-numbers and predictable comedy, which will likely prove to be a bit of a disappointment for fans of his previous work.
Keeping Up with the Joneses follows Karen and Jeff Gaffney, played by Galifianakis and Fisher, a comfortable married couple living in a typical suburban cul-de-sac celebrating the first summer without their kids, who are away at summer camp. The Gaffneys’ lives are shaken up when Tim and Natalie Jones (Gadot and Hamm) move in across the street, a perfect, attractive, and adventurous married couple who quickly grow close to the Gaffneys, though Karen’s suspicions that the Joneses may not be who they say they are continues the closer they get to them.
As you can probably imagine, Karen’s suspicions end up being true when the Joneses are revealed to be spies investigating a possible treasonous deal taking place at the technology company where Jeff works as an HR representative. What happens from there on out is a surprisingly well-staged action film, with sporadically funny jokes, that really only works due to Mottola’s skills as a filmmaker, the strong performances he receives from his leading stars, and a fun cameo that comes near the end.
Jon Hamm once again proves that he’s almost always going to be better than the material he’s given if it doesn’t have the words “Mad” or “Men” in it, and that rule holds true once again here. He makes Tim Jones a much more sympathetic and cool character than probably most other actors working today could have. Meanwhile, Gal Gadot continues to establish herself as an increasingly exciting actress in her own right, after already giving two strong performances in both Batman v Superman and Triple 9 earlier this year. Natalie isn’t written as a very funny character, with the script unfortunately banking mostly on her looks and deadly skills as a spy for her jokes, but Gadot manages to make it work.
Keeping Up with the Joneses is a predictable, but good-hearted action comedy that features strong performances from both Gal Gadot and Jon Hamm.
- Alex Welch
Keeping Up with the Joneses: Directed by Greg Mottola. With Zach Galifianakis, Isla Fisher, Jon Hamm, Gal Gadot. A suburban couple becomes embroiled in an international espionage plot when they discover that their seemingly perfect new neighbors are government spies.
- (69K)
- Action, Comedy
- Greg Mottola
- 2016-10-21
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 19% based on 124 reviews and an average rating of 4.40/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Keeping Up with the Joneses squanders a decent premise – and a talented cast full of funny people – on a witless and largely laugh-free suburban spy adventure."
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Keeping Up with the Joneses is a good movie with a reasonably well developed plot and a fantastic comedic cast. The highlight of the film is certainly the connection and chemistry between the four main cast members, all of the individual relationships between Zach Galifanakis, Isla Fisher, Jon Hamm and Gal Gadot is what makes this movie watchable.
