Muddled Mess

Rating: 1/10 (1 June 2015)

"Don" Jon(Joseph Gordon Levitt) is a typical "jersey shore" type guido. His life revolves around the gym (and presumably tanning and laundry), road raging on his way to church and picking up women at the club. Oh, and pornography. In fact Jon is so addicted to internet pornography, he prefers the ladies online to the real thing.
I have a number of issues with this movie. I don't understand why they made the choice for Jon to be a "guido". Maybe they wanted to cash in Jersey Shore. Levitt doesn't have what it takes to pull off Jersey tough guy but he tries, I guess. Scarlet Johansson's "acting" is poor as usual but her character is just incredibly poorly written and completely unbelievable. Jon and his family are basically a bunch of Italian American stereotypes. Tony Danza is obnoxious as usual and Brie Larson (as Jon's sister) is more or less wasted. The guido stuff is just distracting and unnecessary. The gym and church scenes are incredibly repetitive and add nothing. I mean, at this point I'm just glad there wasn't a mafia subplot.
The best thing about this movie is Julianne Moore who does a good job as Esther, the older woman Jon meets while in college. But not even she can save this movie. Don Jon's problem is that it doesn't know if it wants to be a serious movie about pornography addiction or a crude comedy chock full of lazy stereotypes and grating accents.