Ben Stiller directs a new interptation of Jame's Thurbers Walter Mitty character.

Rating: 10/10 (13 April 2014)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty(2013)
Starring:Ben Stiller,Kristen Wiig,Patton Oswalt,Shirly Maclane,Adam Scott,Kathryn Hahn,Sean Penn,Terrance Bernie, and Adrian Martinez
Directed By:Ben Stiller
My Review
I've seen both versions of this adventure with Danny Kaye and Ben Stiller who read the short story unlike me when he was younger in school. I saw both versions at the right time in my life,cause I daydream often about adventures and things going my way. When I saw the first trailer I was watching it like what the heck is this then I read what it was about and what it was based off of and that's when I thought to myself I must see this. I read a comment on YouTube when the exclusive footage went online that said "There is a Walter Mitty in each of us, we live in a world were we work for long hard hours and don't have time or energy to go on some kind of adventure,they call it modern society but it should be called modern slavery."
In this re-imagining of Jame Thurber classic short story Ben Stiller plays daydreamer Walter Mitty who has a crush on his co-worker named Cheryl Melhoff(Kristen Wiig) and it's Life magazine's final days before it goes digital. Walter's new boss Ted(Adam Scott) is asking for the final piece of the telegram for the picture for the cover but Walter lost it. He goes on a global journey to find Sean O'Connel(Sean Penn) to see if he can help him.
This film was actually a passion project of director Ben Stiller, he has been wanting to do this film for years. He does a great job of trying to pull his own performance of Walter Mitty who is another character that be considered relate-able. I saw comments on YouTube about people saying they daydream or know someone who does,I do. Kristen Wiig gives one of my favorite performances of hers cause it's out of what she use to which is comedy, like Stiller. Adam Scott was great as his mean boss Ted. Him and Stiller share one of my favorite sequences in the film. Sean Penn was cool as Sean O'Connel the photographer who sent Mitty the telegram with negative twenty-five. I am not very familiar with Kathryn Hann who plays Odessa, Walter's sister but I have seen Shirley MacLane once before I just don't remember where.
The music is very important to the film it escort's its transcendent feel. While making the journey we take with Walter very real along with it's beautiful cinematography which is the best I've seen all year so far and I hope it gets nominated for that but I doubt it.
This re-imagining of the short story should please fans of the story or the Danny Kaye version.. It hits the mark of film that it is Imaginative, filled with beautiful music, superb acting and cast, and makes you feel like your on a journey whether you relate to the character or not. I give The Secret Life of Walter Mitty a five out of five.