Movie: Joy

We went out to a matinee yesterday to see the new Robert De Niro/Jennifer Lawrence movie about Joy Mangano, the inventor of the Miracle Mop.

It wasn't what I expected.

It was alternately sad, and a Hallmark movie, and frustrating, and tedious. The acting was good, but there weren't any moments of grace in the movie: no epiphanies, no wonder, no stopping to take stock. It was just a relentlessly slow slog to success for a beleaguered inventor. Not very inspiring. Not very motivating.

Not very good.

"Shockingly bad" isn't the way I'd put it, but the criticisms are spot on.

PLUS... there was this on-going story about Joy's mother watching a soap opera on TV. Eventually Joy began dreaming about herself as a character on the show. This one-line gag went on, and on, and on, and on.