A Surrealistic Coming of Age Adventure Comedy Drama

Rating: 9/10 (16 January 2019)

27 December 2013. Ben Stiller coming of age as an adult comedian actor. This movie directed and starring himself as Walter Mitty brings to the screen a rather imaginative fantasy in a way that Danny Kaye's 1947 version didn't not. There is surprisingly a strong undertone of drama along with the rather sad comedy. This fusion of surreal from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), the recession employment drama from Up In the Air (2009), and the exotic geographic adventure of the rather lame but gorgeous The Loneliest Planet (2011) offers a riveting musical score that enhances the entire movie. Ben Stiller just manages to restrain the over the top fantasmagorical craziness before it rips the balance of the movie apart. Both serious and yet comically, Ben Stiller has incorporated a rich everyman story of fear, courage, romance, and liberation of the spirit in this playful movie. Much like Adam Sandler break out performance in Punch Drunk Love (2002), Ben Stiller has offered the audience with a superlative movie.