Stepping outside the norm sometimes can be really a good thing in life and at the movies.
The new Indy flick Cedar Rapids is certainly off the beaten path, and shapes up as a really fresh, extremely adult, dark comedy that is really funny. Cedar Rapids is certainly not for everyone, but if you are a fan of the underdogs of movie making, this is for you.
Cedar Rapids is the story of Tim Lippe, who is an incredibly naive 35 year old single man in Wisconsin who works for a very small insurance company. He has never flown on a plane, or done a million things most have done by that stage of life. He has never even had a drink. He is being used by his former middle school teacher for sex now that she is retired and divorced, and he has no clue she doesn't share his real feelings. He is then charged with going to the "big city" of Cedar Rapids, Iowa for the Midwest Insurance Conference where his job is to bring home the coveted "Two Diamond" award for his goofy boss.
Once there, Tim meets a bunch of other veteran insurance agents, all who have there own troubles and quirks too. Now that he's in the "big city" Tim becomes something of a wild man, partying till all hours, sleeping with a fellow "frustrated in life" insurance woman. He gets tangled up at a drug party with a prostitute, gets caught skinny dipping by the president of the conference in the hotel pool drunk, and ends up making a devils deal with him in exchange for the award.
This movie is so well written you can't help but laugh at, and with this. They develop great characters that have real growth, and tell a story you certainly have not seen before. Fantastic parody of the insurance industry, and small city life in the upper mid west. Many laugh out loud moments that are guilty pleasures. There is plenty of crude language, and serious adult moments here, drug usage and some serious stereotypes. But all skillfully handled and done with a sense of harmlessness that innocence that is more charming than offensive. That is the beauty of a well done Indy movie.
Cedar Rapids also extremely well cast with Ed Helms (Tim), John C. Reilly, Anne Heche (who is terrific) Isiah Whitlock Jr. and Sigourney Weaver. Throw in an eclectic and funny soundtrack, all wrapped in in about 90 minutes, it doesn't wear out its welcome.
Cedar Rapids. This has the potential to be one of the real fun movies you may see this year. But this will miss with some I understand. If you like off beat, quirky movies this is for you.
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