C'mon C'mon

A guy wanders NYC talking to his nephew. Not much happens, slow moving.

It's a well acted and real. It was too slow and the payoff at the and to mundane for my tastes.

A very touching movie that is also realistic in its portrayal of humans as messy. The kid is annoying sometimes! The adult is inflexible sometimes! And while this movie can simply be enjoyed as a story of a man who has the chance to see the world through a kid's eyes, that's not even what it's really about to me. It's even more about a child modeling for an adult what it looks like to feel your feelings, a lesson that feelings are not bad in spite of what the current generation of adults were raised to think. It's also a beautiful story of reconciliation and reconnection between siblings. There are layers here and anchored by Joaquin Phoenix's reliable performance it's even more than meets the eye.

I understand that this is an A-24 film and should be artistic, but I couldn't get into it. It has a very slow pace and after 20 minutes I was getting anxious for something to make me feel obligated to continue watching.

I understand that this is an A-24 film and should be artistic, but I couldn't get into it. It has a very slow pace and after 20 minutes I was getting anxious for something to make me feel obligated to continue watching.

In the eye-opening greyscale, formulaic routine becomes more thoughtfully edged and approached innocently as Joaquin Phoenix, in recognizably reminisced form, interacts with a youthful perspective over the ever-changing world through his sweet dynamic with Woody Norman’s purifying mechanism as the discourse’s central heart within secondary extents. (B+)

Thought provoking opening lines, but the story isn't as much. C'mon C'mon stay awake ...

It's like being in the era after Saturday morning cartoons and eating cold plain oatmeal for breakfast with someone else's kid. Can someone just make some pancakes and turn on some cartoons? Mildly amusing for awhile then it just becomes a snore as nothing has developed, nothing is happening, and nothing has resolved... like cold, plain oatmeal.

Great exterior cinematography for the most part, beautiful shots of the cities where the story takes place. The movie is a bit convoluted, using three main angles - interviews with children, the relationship between a brother and sister, and the relationship between the sister's son and the uncle - to make the same points over and over... and over. It could lose 40 minutes and be a much better film. By the end it is "OK, I get it, can this be over now?" Some unearned scenes near the end are a bit eye rolling and do not ring true. It is a very indulgent and flawed piece of film making. Might be better received by people who think it is super cool and amazing to have and raise children. What it shows really is how mundane and quotidian the daily family conflicts of life are. These points were made to me, but not sure the makers of this were shooting for that, probably more like "Isn't this touching and deep and philosophical and meaningful?" which I did not find it to be.

I do think that its basically a cliché, well made and acted, but a cliché nonetheless which becomes more obvious as the movie goes along. That said, Phoenix is unusually subdued here which is the strongest aspect of the movie.