{"id":377908,"date":"2021-12-08T03:00:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T00:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-dont-look-up-review-adam-mckays-apocalyptic-comet-comedy\/"},"modified":"2021-12-08T03:00:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T00:00:29","slug":"watch-dont-look-up-review-adam-mckays-apocalyptic-comet-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-dont-look-up-review-adam-mckays-apocalyptic-comet-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Don&#8217;t Look Up&#8217; Review: Adam McKay&#8217;s Apocalyptic Comet Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3ad1eaa1ae8\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3ad1eaa1ae8\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-dont-look-up-review-adam-mckays-apocalyptic-comet-comedy\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Dont_Look_Up_Review_Adam_McKays_Apocalyptic_Comet_Comedy%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Don&#8217;t Look Up&#8217; Review: Adam McKay&#8217;s Apocalyptic Comet Comedy&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-dont-look-up-review-adam-mckays-apocalyptic-comet-comedy\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Dont_Look_Up_Review_Adam_McKays_Apocalyptic_Comet_Comedy%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Don&#8217;t Look Up&#8217; Review: Adam McKay&#8217;s Apocalyptic Comet Comedy&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-dont-look-up-review-adam-mckays-apocalyptic-comet-comedy\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-dont-look-up-review-adam-mckays-apocalyptic-comet-comedy\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Dont_Look_Up_Review_Adam_McKays_Apocalyptic_Comet_Comedy%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Don&#8217;t Look Up&#8217; Review: Adam McKay&#8217;s Apocalyptic Comet Comedy&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Dont_Look_Up_Review_Adam_McKays_Apocalyptic_Comet_Comedy%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Don&#8217;t Look Up&#8217; Review: Adam McKay&#8217;s Apocalyptic Comet Comedy&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        Humans are stupid and can\u2019t be expected to agree on anything, even if their existence depends on it. That\u2019s the \u201chilarious\u201d insight Adam McKay wants to impart with \u201cDon\u2019t Look Up,\u201d a smug, easy-target political satire in which two earnest astronomers (Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence) have one hell of a time trying to convince an attention-deficit president (Meryl Streep) or bobblehead <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> (repped by Cate Blanchett and Tyler Perry) that there\u2019s a comet hurtling toward Earth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeep it light, fun.\u201d That\u2019s the advice a cable talk-show producer gives \u201cthe sky is falling\u201d scientists Dr. Randall Mindy (DiCaprio, looking dweeby) and Kate Dibiasky (Lawrence, sporting a nose ring and hair the color of red velvet cake) when the pair <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ear on \u201cThe Daily Rip\u201d to share the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> with the masses. Except the sky is falling, and these two can\u2019t get anyone to take them seriously. They\u2019ve already been to the White House, where Streep\u2019s Trump-like President Orlean (also the name of her \u201cAdaptation\u201d character) and her bratty chief of staff\/son (Jonah Hill in his single most obnoxious role) were too busy damage-controlling a ratings disaster to deal with a potential extinction event.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than \u201csit tight and assess,\u201d as the administration recommends, the scientists \u2014 along with rational-minded Dr. Oglethorpe (Rob Morgan) from the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (evidently a real place) \u2014 decide to leak the news on an insipid but popular \u201cGood Morning America\u201d-style talk show. Dr. Mindy does well on TV, adapting to the hosts\u2019 brainless banter, but Dibiasky can\u2019t deal, snapping, \u201cWell, maybe the discussion of the planet isn\u2019t supposed to be fun! Maybe it\u2019s supposed to be terrifying. And unsettling \u2026 when we\u2019re all 100% for sure gonna fucking die!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shrill and self-righteous though it can be, this starry comedy is McKay\u2019s way of raising the alarm on global warming, an issue that DiCaprio and no less a figure than ex-veep Al Gore have struggled to turn into compelling cinema. Since the ice caps aren\u2019t melting fast enough (for eco-thriller purposes, at least), McKay invents a threat with a six-month deadline to impact, the assumption being that collapsing the time frame for survival would surely \u2014 or at least should \u2014 light a fire under people\u2019s butts.<\/p>\n<p>Without spoiling just how gonzo things get, such an ultra-cynical scenario can end one of three ways: (1) with the doomsday nerds being proven wrong, (2) with the nincompoop president somehow managing to save the day or (3) with the whole effing planet being obliterated so McKay can \u201cprove\u201d his point. As executed, \u201cDon\u2019t Look Up\u201d plays like the leftie answer to \u201cArmageddon\u201d \u2014 which is to say, it ditches the Bruckheimer approach of assembling a bunch of blue-collar heroes to rocket out to space and nuke the approaching comet, opting instead to spotlight the apathy, incompetence and financial self-interest of all involved (including Mark Rylance\u2019s Sir Peter Isherwell, an extreme Asperger\u2019s case \u2014 and campaign mega-donor \u2014 who combines elements of Steve Jobs, Elon Musk and Richard Branson).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t Look Up\u201d is the latest in McKay\u2019s streak of liberal-leaning current-affairs critiques, and it boasts many of the same strengths as \u201cVice\u201d and \u201cBombshell\u201d before it: topicality and a gift for translating complex ideas into glib comic situations on one hand, spastic pacing and an unwieldy mix of acting styles on the other. After a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of more-fun Will Ferrell collaborations (namely \u201cAnchorman\u201d and \u201cTalladega Nights\u201d), the writer-director got serious \u2014 in terms of his underlying content, at least \u2014 with 2015\u2019s best picture-nominated \u201cThe Big Short,\u201d a clever if exhausting breakdown of the financial crisis that set McKay on a path of increasingly punchy, stick-it-to-the-man movies. But unless you\u2019re Roland Emmerich, global warming is a tricky concept to dramatize, and McKay can\u2019t decide whether he wants to amuse or upset us.<\/p>\n<p>An exaggerated caricature of the family members who make up Trump\u2019s inner circle, Jonah Hill is there merely to get laughs, delivering lines like \u201cI can\u2019t think of another president that I\u2019d ever wanna see in Playboy\u201d about his mom. But what is going on in the throwaway scene where Lawrence\u2019s Chicken Little character suffers a mini-meltdown, pointing around the room and screaming, \u201cYou\u2019re going to die! And you\u2019re going to die!\u201d in all directions? Getting the laugh is obviously editor Hank Corwin\u2019s first priority, but often enough, it comes at the price of a kind of formal anarchy (cutting to hi-def shots of bees and CG renderings of outer space).<\/p>\n<p>The plot of \u201cDon\u2019t Look Up\u201d is intricate enough that McKay would have done well to rein in the improv, rather than letting everyone \u201cAmerican Hustle\u201d their way through scenes. The director seems to be aiming for \u201cDr. Strangelove\u201d-level lunacy, when we probably would\u2019ve settled for \u201cWag the Dog,\u201d which similarly skewered politics through the lens of showbiz, or \u201cIdiocracy,\u201d the film this one most resembles.<\/p>\n<p>The characters have a relatively tight schedule to save Earth, but it\u2019s virtually impossible to tell what (much less how much time) has transpired between scenes, as Dr. Mindy and Dibiasky\u2019s private lives lurch forward without explanation. At one point, we find her working in a BevMo-style liquor store and falling in love with a stoned skater (Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet, wasted, and also wasted). But wasn\u2019t she a grad student with a quasi-reporter boyfriend when the movie began? So how\u2019d she get here?<\/p>\n<p>Had the movie come out in 2019, I probably would\u2019ve gone along with its overall premise \u2014 that, when faced with an extinction-level emergency, our species is not equipped to come together and problem-solve. But I need not remind you that we\u2019ve collectively spent the past two years dealing with another disaster, COVID-19, and though the situation has devolved into a lot of the behavior McKay depicts (enriching billionaires, denying <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>), the pandemic also showed humanity\u2019s capacity to focus on a common goal, to develop a vaccine in record time and to message a potentially lifesaving mask policy on a global scale.<\/p>\n<p>So maybe we\u2019re not as hopeless as McKay implies, even if a few of the movie\u2019s jokes are dead-on sendups of stunts we\u2019ve witnessed in recent politics. The movie\u2019s title, for example, alludes to the ostrich-minded among us \u2014 those whose strategy for ignoring the growing fireball in the sky is simply \u201cdon\u2019t look up.\u201d And then there\u2019s the vapid pop star (Arianna Grande) who turns her attention from saving the manatees to the film\u2019s funniest gag, dropping a song called \u201cJust Look Up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Comet denial isn\u2019t the same thing as climate-change skepticism, obviously, but once we do acknowledge the problem, we can probably all agree that a Jobs-Musk-Branson billionaire isn\u2019t the person to fix it (or in this case, to mine the comet for precious resources rather than destroying it). McKay\u2019s tone may be grating, even if you don\u2019t have to look far to see some version of what he\u2019s ranting about in the real world. 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