It's entertaining but...

Rating: 5/10 (10 March 2020)

This Secret Life of Walter is kind of the epitome of a feel good movie. It's happy, entertaining, fluffy, and has a good message. However, it totally goes off the rails from the original storyline in the book. Mitty was a bumbling idiot who was taken advantage of and was only able to stick up for himself in the fantasy world. The movie draws far away from the fascinating and somewhat ambiguous pessimism delivered in the story. Instead of this, the movie is sappy, a little overly goofy for its own good, and incredibly egocentric (this is definitely not the first ego trip from the highly obnoxious Stiller). All and all, I can respect that it was all in good fun but I still found it pretty annoying.
C