Away We Go

"Away We Go" is a road tripper movie for perfectionist. Verona and Burt (Maya Rudolph and John Krasinski) travel the country to figure out the perfect place to raise their unborn baby. They venture to Tucson, Phoenix, and Montreal, hoping that one place will feel right to live. Each area has either a friend or family member varying from emotionally unstable, psychotic, to a loud mouth.

Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, the Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward of the literary journal universe, wrote this film, which the Englishman Sam Mendes , of "American Beauty" and "Revolutionary Road," directed. The tone, "Away We Go" feels like a fairy tale built on an aggravating collection of attitudes. It's condescending, judgmental, righteous, yet sincerely searching. It's also the very rare American movie about men and women in their 30's intelligent, articulate, appreciably and a sense of humor. Putting both actors of Maya from SNL and John form the show, “The Office” seems like an awkward combination but some how they sink into the characters of Burt and Verona so adequately.

"Away We Go" acknowledges passage into a rite of adulthood. Verona and Burt aren't asking what kind of grownups they want to be. They're wondering what sort of mom and dad they'll turn out being. The movie has moments of beauty, mostly when the couple are lying around thinking aloud, once on a trampoline in Miami exchanging child-rearing vows. The ruth about love is that it's not perfect and Burt and Verona are no exception, but it's how all these different people deal with their imperfections that make them both interesting and hilarious.

This film made myself think about packing up all my belongings to just see what would be so different in another place. How would my surroundings affect the way I am to others?

Overall, this is a sweet story the joins all the crazy things that happen to everyone. We all have an idea of what is the perfect family, how parents should be, and what makes a relationship survive. But, the only thing anyone can do is just be who you are and the best person to that special someone.