After seemingly waiting years for Amazon to drop the prices of this movie, I'm totally disappointed in the first (and hopefully last) Wolfhard/Eisenberg collaboration. I thought it was going to be about a bright kid who was actually "trying to save the world." In fact, Wolfhard's Ziggy is anything but - "stupid" might not be PC but that's how I'd describe him.
The music Ziggy performs to "20,000 followers" is so awful it's hard to imagine anyone would follow him except to laugh behind his back. Making money from it? Again, make me laugh!
His interest in the "political girl" is never explained, so her disinterest in him is the most credible part of the story.
I think most of us are most interested in Ziggy's story, yet his mother's story actually dominates the movie. People say she's trying to "mother" the teen boy she meets in her shelter (if the boy has a good relationship with his father, why is he living in a shelter?), but honestly it seemed to me she wanted to MILF him. Speaking of - anyone hoping to see "more" of Finn Wolfhard in this movie will be disappointed. There is a shower scene, but it's his mother!
French Canadian teen writer/director/actor Xavier Dolan made a brilliant movie on a similar son-mother relationship ("I Killed my Mother") and Ziggy's awkward ambition occasionally reminded me of "Scott Pilgrim." But apparently, an "original audio book" is even lower than a comic book as inspiration for a movie, and at 87 minutes, "When You Finish Saving the World" is still 86 minutes too long.
The music Ziggy performs to "20,000 followers" is so awful it's hard to imagine anyone would follow him except to laugh behind his back. Making money from it? Again, make me laugh!
His interest in the "political girl" is never explained, so her disinterest in him is the most credible part of the story.
I think most of us are most interested in Ziggy's story, yet his mother's story actually dominates the movie. People say she's trying to "mother" the teen boy she meets in her shelter (if the boy has a good relationship with his father, why is he living in a shelter?), but honestly it seemed to me she wanted to MILF him. Speaking of - anyone hoping to see "more" of Finn Wolfhard in this movie will be disappointed. There is a shower scene, but it's his mother!
French Canadian teen writer/director/actor Xavier Dolan made a brilliant movie on a similar son-mother relationship ("I Killed my Mother") and Ziggy's awkward ambition occasionally reminded me of "Scott Pilgrim." But apparently, an "original audio book" is even lower than a comic book as inspiration for a movie, and at 87 minutes, "When You Finish Saving the World" is still 86 minutes too long.