Incoherent trash

Rating: 3/10 (13 April 2013)

It doesn't matter who's in your film - if the story's terrible, they're not going to save it. And so here we have Silver Linings Playbook - a title that brings together the two seemingly innocuous themes from the movie that together invites the same response as they do in the movie themselves, that being "erm, what?".
The story is a mess of several ideas tenuously strung together that just doesn't seem to make sense and, upon reflection, really does seem like a poor excuse to bring so many big names together.
And these big names don't even save it, due to the awful dialogue. Granted, there is meant to be some chaos to it because of the unhinged nature of the characters. However, when you have so many of the actors talking over each other and spouting drivel that is obviously the result of some poor improvisation, it makes for a truly unpleasant and uncomfortable viewing. Now there will be some people who will justify this as "it was intended this way", but, intended or not, this is not an enjoyable film to watch.
A collection of poorly-realised ideas that can't be redeemed by a usually great cast. People have been star-struck by them - don't buy it, this is not a good movie.