You will believe a man can fly...
The Story:
Danny (Rhys Ifans) finds out that his girlfriend is cheating on him. Naturally, this happens on a long holiday weekend when the friends are coming over for a barbie. Danny gets the wild idea to tie giant helium filled balloons to his lounge chair and see if it will lift off the ground. His friends help, and suddenly Danny is aloft...
And his scissors for cutting the balloons is back on the ground!
Danny disappears into the clouds, and all of Australia is abuzz on what happened to him.
When Danny lands in a town far, far away from where he came from, he discovers that he can have a fresh start at life, and at love with a local named Glenda (Miranda Otto).
Of course, nothing is ever that easy.
Once again, digging through the thousands of movies in the Netflix catalog, and ran across this towards the top of the romantic comedy stack, so I figured, why not?
It's a cute movie.
Nothing genre-smashing or anything of that nature. A very much paint by the numbers that you know exactly what's going to happen and how it's going to get there long before the movie actually does.
Ifans is always fun on the screen, and carries most of the movie. Like his character, you're rooting for him to succeed because he deserves so much more in life than how we are first introduced to him. Just meeting his first girlfriend, you know he's destined for someone...anyone...better.
Good enough, but not enough to get me lobby that you move it to the top of your queues anytime soon.
Final Grade: C+
Rewatchability/Purchase Factor: I could let it play again, but wouldn't rush out to buy it.
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