Rated PG-13 for language
Starring Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Adam Scott, Sean Penn
Directed by Ben Stiller
The Story:
Walter Mitty (Stiller) works for Life Magazine. Life has been bought out and Ted Hendricks (Scott) comes to Life to oversee the transfer from print to digital. When famed photographer Sean O'Connell sends Mitty the negative that is to be the cover of the final issue of Life, he can't find it! Mitty's previous daydreams of adventure turn real as he goes on a global quest to track down O'Connell to find out why he didn't send the actual negative.
The hook for "Walter Mitty" comes in his daydreams to escape reality.
Perhaps surprisingly, I actually didn't care too much for the movie when Mitty kept having his daydreams.
It is when he actually undertook the task of tracking down O'Connell that the movie began to fully win me over. Granted, he still had a few daydreams, but they were much shorter, and much less far-fetched than those that had come earlier.
At that point, Mitty became the Everyman that audiences root for to succeed. We become invested in his quest to track down the missing negative.
Of course, like the rest of the audience, odds are you will figure out where the picture really is, but that isn't the mystery so much as what is on the picture.
What could convey to the audience what could be one of the most important images in Life's storied history?
Needless to say, they nailed it.
It's a beautiful image that might even bring a tear to your eye as you realize that no matter how great technology has become, we are quickly losing so much of our historic past at an alarming rate.
Pretty profound for a comedy.
I have no comparison with the original as to how much or how little is made from the previous movie or story upon which it is based.
All I do know, is I'm glad I got to share in Walter Mitty's Life, no matter how briefly it was.
Final Grade: B
Rewatchability/Purchase Factor: I'm not rushing out to buy it, but I wouldn't mind watching it again.
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