It's been ages since we experienced the joy of an evening at the theater for nothing (other than waiting in line for 45 minutes), so we were pleased to witness the amusing trifle that is Cyrus.
We have a sort of awkward and lonely but apparently decent sort of man who meets this sweet and charming woman and they totally hit it off and things are going great but she has a 21-year-old son who she raised as a single parent and homeschooled and breastfed until he was five, and he still lives with her and they have a very close relationship and, well, he's pretty possessive.
So the movie is basically the interactions between these characters, as well as the man's ex-wife, who's getting remarried but is still a good friend.
It was pretty funny, and I enjoyed the acting. John C. Reilly always makes a good sort of average guy that you can feel sympathetic towards, and Marisa Tomei is fairly radiant and adorable, and Jonah Hill is faintly alarming.
It has a light feel to it, with a lot of amusing moments and reasonably likable, if dysfunctional, characters upon whom I did not wish ill fortune or despair. It was an hour and a half, which seemed about right.
Don't expect a strong forward drive to what might be considered the main plot--it takes a while to get underway, and meanders a bit, but in an entertaining way so I didn't find myself getting impatient with it. Basically, just have fun watching these characters interact with each other.
So I enjoyed it, but since you can never quite tell based on me, I will report that there was a scattering of applause in the theater at the end, and some college kids sitting next to me seemed quite pleased.
Also, there was a general exclamation of astonishment when Ridley Scott's name showed up in the credits, given that there had been no dramatic battles to the death. (Oops--spoiler!)
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