First watched it long time ago, I laughed.
I watched again last weekend, and it wasn't so funny.
I guess I only expected comedy when I first watched it and took everything lightly.
This time, I was on my couch, focused.
A broken family is incredibly sad and time cannot heal it.
People involved can only walk away and pretend everything is fine.
Meryl Streep is an amazing actress.
In every movie she was in that I watched, she had some kinda aura. She outshone everyone.
She takes my focus away from others with her acting.
In special features of The Devil Wears Prada DVD, the director kept saying how Streep put more life into a character that was already charismatic and absorbing. Streep was just that and maybe more. Same goes in Kramer vs Kramer.
In this movie, she is cheerful, high, excited and bears all the burden of kids, loneliness and sadness.
Alec Baldwin and Meryl Streep did crack me up at times, and Steve Martin for the first time I think played non-funny role in a movie. He I think is done. Martin can be better off as a voice actor now.
Streep in that scene was funny.
PS: Do girls really talk to other girls about everything? Hmm...
4/5