The Mall of America theaters previewed It’s Kind of a Funny Story on Tuesday October 6, 2010. It was a waste of my time driving 30 minutes to go see. The title of the story needs to be changed because there is nothing funny about suicide.
This movie is partly autobiographical. It’s Kind of a Funny Story tries to touch an emotional connection to teen alienation that it sometimes grasps and just as often doesn’t.
Keir Gilchrist plays Craig (main character), a high schooler who is contemplating suicide. He decides to check himself into a mental ward. Craig is notified that he just can’t check himself out when he wants to leave. He is where he meets Bobby (Zach Galifiarakis), a buffoonish intermittent lifer.
The film fails to sustain its wild momentum and instead settles for trivial teen clichés about sex and rivalries. Some of the audience in the theater was falling asleep during the movie. All in all, It’s Kind of a Funny Story is a must not see movie.
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