Get the latest gossip
‘The Problem With People’ Review: Paul Reiser and Colm Meaney Are Bickering Cousins in Mildly Amusing Comedy
Relying on stereotypes and obvious culture-clash jokes, 'The Problem With People' imagines estranged relatives trying to put aside past differences.
Predictably, the village is full of quirky personalities: a multitude of characters who are always ready with an amusing quip in the background, commenting on the action like a Greek chorus with Irish accents. None of them are written with any specificity, though the actors manage to land the lines and elicit a few chuckles here and there — except for a tiresome twosome who try to speak with a Brooklyn accent for the entirety of the movie. What started as an homage to 1983’s masterful comedy “Local Hero,” a film directly referenced here several times, winds up feeling like a nicer, more compassionate remake of “The War of the Roses.” No matter how much Ciaran and Barry try to one-up each other, they remain sweethearts who can’t really do any harm.
Or read this on Variety
