Keeping Up with the Joneses

2016 "They lived a normal life... Until the Joneses moved in."
5.9| 1h45m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 21 October 2016 Released
Producted By: Fox 2000 Pictures
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.JonesesMovie.com/
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An ordinary suburban couple finds it’s not easy keeping up with the Joneses – their impossibly gorgeous and ultra-sophisticated new neighbors – especially when they discover that Mr. and Mrs. “Jones” are covert operatives.

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SnoopyStyle In suburban Atlanta, married couple Jeff (Zach Galifianakis) and Karen Gaffney (Isla Fisher) drop off their sons for the summer camp. They have a temporary empty nest. Tim (Jon Hamm) and Natalie Jones (Gal Gadot) move into the neighborhood. They are exotic, friendly, beautiful, super-skilled, and overly interested in Jeff's workplace.This has a certain fun with the foursome together. They have a nice comedic chemistry. Isla Fisher is probably too cute and beautiful. Her character needs to be the opposite of Gal Gadot although the height difference with Wonder Woman is quite funny during the lingerie scene. Isla is a pretty funny comedic actress which helps a lot. There are ways to push this harder but it does hold back. Galifianakis could have been more dead pan wacky. While the four actors do good work together, the premise and the writing adds little new to the genre.
DKosty123 I am a big fan of Jon Hamm (Madmen). Michael LeSieur (writer of You,Me, And Dupree) came up with this comedy script about violent means to an end -A suburban couple get into an international espionage plot when they discover that their seemingly perfect new neighbors are government spies. Hamm's Tim Jones is perfectly dead panned straight man with the uber good looking Gal Gadot as wife Natalie Jones, a tall couple of spies who move into a suburb home next to Jeff (Zach Galifianakis) and Karen Gaffney (Isla Fisher). There can be no doubt the couples are physically appealing. Patton Oswalt is Scorpion, who helps make life complicated for everyone. While the film has a lot of action and is pretty lively, the jokes often physical in nature just miss the mark sometimes. There are moments which come close to being inspired but the action stuff being outrageous often gets the feeling of being done before. One thing done here that comes close to porn films but for humor is a little making out between Gadot and the shorter Fisher which comes close to getting steamy hot. That kind of says it all about this one. I like Hamm so I'd watch it again, but a classic film,umm...no but at least it connects the dots and keeps you awake better than some films I'd prefer to snore through.
robin-benson A very bland, lightweight spy caper comedy. Like so many movies, of whatever genre, it's not particular good or bad, just bland and I think all the creative folk involved would probably agree though not until its had run of movie house, DVD and TV sales around the world and they've all moved on from this 2016 production.It's a comedy, so maybe a chance for some good one-liners and Galifianakis and Hamm get a few but only a few. I don't think writer Mike LeSieur spent too much time with the script, just enough to deliver a stock, bland story, likewise with the spy caper clichés such as the car chase with baddies on motorbikes with machine guns who, of course, are incapable of killing off the good guys in their car racing around a deserted factory.There's not much else I can say, the photography, sets, sound are all as one would expect from Hollywood professionals and I bet, right now there are two or three similar bland movies being shot for release in 2018 or 2019. Without this sort of mild, inoffensive, easy on the eye product where would the city of the stars be.
StavrosHoldings This was hard to watch. Jon Hamm became a favorite of mine during Mad Men. He tried to fit Mottola's (directors) requests but it just didn't work. Is Mottola trying for a Mr. and Mrs, Smith type movie? Gal Gadot tip toes in many scenes and probably can't run or is not very athletic. The film simply takes too long to get to the Jones being spies. It drags at every part and all my guest simply looked at each other whenever a poor attempt was made at comedy and shook their heads. It wasn't a total waste of time. I luckily didn't pay to watch this film and I had a notebook in my lap. This film should have been made for television and never aired at the theater.