Admission (2013)

Paul Rudd has been typecast in the same roles for the majority of his career.  When Tina Fey is not on television, she is acting in cheesy romantic comedies.  With this in mind, I figured that this movie would be very average, but I thought that I would give it a chance anyway.

The film is about an admissions officer at Princeton (Tina Fey) who is not very fond of children.  After finding out that an applicant just might be her son that she gave up for adoption a number of years before, she puts her job in jeopardy trying to help him get accepted.

The movie was directed by Paul Weitz and the rest of the noteworthy cast includes Paul Rudd, Gloria Reuben, Wallace Shawn, Lily Tomlin, Michael Sheen, Nat Wolff, and Travaris Spears.

I would hardly classify Admission as a comedy.  It is not even really a dramedy.  It is a romantic drama, but mainly just a drama.

It seems like more and more movies these days have been released classified as comedy/romance/drama.  It is deceiving because often times these movies are just not very funny or any good at all, i.e. The Guilt Trip (2012) and Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012).

These types of movies take actors that are mainly known for their comedy and they try to stretch the parameters of their acting ability by making them do comedy, drama, and romance.  The end result is usually a light hearted, dysfunctional concoction of cheesy and cheap humor, a formulaic story, and characters that seem out of place because they are out of their element and in over their heads.  Admission is exactly this kind of movie.

I chuckled a few times, I was bored a little bit, and when the movie was over I knew that I would never have to see it again.

Rudd and Fey keep making the same movies and therefore will continue to make the same movies.

Tomlin was charming.  Given that she has mainly been acting in television lately, it was nice to see her in a movie again.

This is not even a good “chick flick.”  Don’t waste your time on this below average movie.

I rate this movie a 4 on a scale of 1-10.

Buy, rent, or run?  Run.