(Movie Review) Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)

I have a small and, often times, unaccommodating local movie theater that often will not get the majority of the films that I would actually like to see. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World was on that list. It has a phenomenal cast and looked really interesting but I never had a chance to check it out. So on a boring chilly night we decided to rent it. In my humblest of humble opinions...it was well worth the wait. 

Storyline: As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan. - from IMDB.com

Thoughts? A really fun and interesting movie. I sure wouldn't call it a "dark comedy", but considering that it's a movie about the end of the world...what else could you call it? There is a surprisingly fun and somehow believable chemistry between Steve Carell and Keira Knightley. I, going in to it, would have only that a relationship between the two of them could be viewed as "friendly", but in the end you do begin to think of them as two people that actually care about each other. 

At the front of the movie they explain that the attempts to thwart the apocalypse have been failures, so you go into the movie knowing that the end of the world is upon us. I think that it adds a very fun albeit heartbreakingly sad element to the film.  

Check it out!