It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010), directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, focuses around a teenage boy, Craig (Keir Gilchrist of United States of Tera) and his interactions with other patients after he checks himself into a psychiatric ward. The film is not horrible by any means, but it's not necessarily the most marvelous film I've seen either It's pretty safe to say It's Kind of a Funny Story stays fairly true to its title. Despite it being set in a psych ward, this film is cute and light-hearted. However, I wasn't blown away. The characters were genuine, but I couldn't find much depth to them. Zach Galifianakis, stepping outside his normal comedic roles, proves that he can successfully take on intellectual parts, but this choice may have been a miss for him. Not because he is not talented, just because of bad writing. It's an optimistic film, but highly forgettable. This film just felt out of place in this time. It's Kind of a Funny Story is "kind of" lots of things, but I just can't put my finger on something that it fully establishes itself as. If you need a dose of laughs and loonies I'd stick with Milos Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975).
Review of It's Kind of a Funny Story
