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This is going to be a short review.
I like Simon Pegg, I really do. He's a great actor, a better comic and probably an even better person and that can do a lot to make a movie work. This film is directed by Peter Chelsom with Rosamund Pike, Christopher Plummer, Toni Collette, Stellan Skarsgard and Jean Reno filling out the rest of the main cast. The film follows Hector (Pegg) a psychiatrist who is stuck in a rut and feels he can no longer help his patients, because of this decides to go on trip to find ways to make people (including himself) happy again.
Hector and the Search for Happiness is a very harmless film, it's not great but it's not bad either. It's not something you'd go out of your way to see but if you did end up watching it it wouldn't be a waste of your time. It's schmaltzy, well intentioned, entertaining at times and contrived at others but there's nothing really to get from this film. It didn't have me grinning side to side, it didn't tell me how to be happy and it didn't give me anything to take away from it...
And that's alright. This movie doesn't have any grand intentions, it's just trying to be a nice time watching a movie. It's well made with a charming cast and sometimes that's enough it make it a decent film. It's not great but in no way bad it just is and that's enough. The reason this review is short is because I just don't really have that much to say and that's alright.
3 out of 5 stars.
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