{"id":151953,"date":"2015-04-26T21:05:05","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T04:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=151953"},"modified":"2015-04-17T07:18:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T14:18:50","slug":"welcome-to-me-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2015\/04\/26\/welcome-to-me-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Me Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WELCOME TO ME<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Alchemy<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reviewed by: Harvey Karten for Shockya. Databased on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Grade: B+<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Director: Shira Piven <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Screenwriter:\u00a0 Eliot Laurence<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Cast:\u00a0 Kristen Wiig, Wes Bentley, Linda Cardellini, Joan Cusack, Loretta Devine, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Thomas Mann, James Marsden, Tim Robbins, Alan Tudyk<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 4\/14\/15<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Opens:\u00a0 May 1, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since everyone wants to be happy, a leading question that everybody asks is: \u201cDoes money buy happiness?\u201d\u00a0 A recent assortment of self-help books conclude that up to a certain amount, say $75,000 annually in a big U.S. city, an increase in dollars will create an increase in happiness.\u00a0 The surprise, though, is that any increase of annual pay over that will lead incrementally to a smaller dose of happiness until at a certain point, big bucks have no effect whatever.\u00a0 This is good news for people who had thought they should dedicate their lives to accumulating wealth, and there is evidence that a sudden stream of money given to people will make them feel ecstatic at first but will ultimately cause them to revert to their less moneyed selves.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s evidence.\u00a0 Kristen Wiig, a comedian known to us for her roles in Saturday Night Live, performs here in the role of Alice Klieg, who has been diagnosed with a borderline personality disorder, a psychological illness that manifests by impulsivity and, in Alice\u2019s case, grandiosity.\u00a0\u00a0 She spends a good deal of time in her California desert apartment watching \u201cOprah\u201d and infomercials, but is ready to break out after winning an $86 million jackpot.\u00a0 Despite advice from Dr. Moffat (Tim Robbins), her laid-back psychotherapist, she goes off her meds, delivers an impromptu monologue to the camera during a TV show (which includes her impulsive statement that she had used masturbation as a sedative), then pitches her own \u201cOprah\u201d-type show to producers Rich (James Marsden) and Gabe (Wes Bentley) with a $15 million check, later increased to bring in more production values.\u00a0 The station is glad to give her a free hand, as without the money, a new round of layoffs would be needed.<\/p>\n<p>With her narcissism evoked, Alice runs everything on the stage, leaving the technical aspects to the crew which includes Jennifer Jason Leigh and a cynical Joan Cusack.\u00a0 \u201cWelcome to Me,\u201d as the show is called, is a format for Alice to talk about herself, using actors to portray\u2014in the most stilted way\u2014her childhood and her teens, even televising a session with her therapist, thereby causing rage among the people she slanders and a tsunami of lawsuits against her and the station.<\/p>\n<p>The most comic of the skits involves her offending an animal rights group by neutering dogs on live TV (she is a graduate of a community college program in veterinary nursing, but what makes this comedy a stand-out is Wiig\u2019s deadpan delivery.\u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t you know that a prospective audience, tired of sitcoms that feature producers who demand an audience giggle every five seconds or even time a character says something that only the screenwriters could find amusing.\u00a0 This is dry humor at its best, and Kristen Wiig is the ideal person to carry program and indeed the entire film.\u00a0 Alice is the kind of person who should stop all psychotherapy: a shrink might cure her of some obsessions but in doing so would render this charming woman normal.\u00a0 And we wouldn\u2019t want that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rated R.\u00a0 86 minutes.\u00a0 \u00a9 Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Story \u2013 B+<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Acting \u2013 B+<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Technical \u2013 B<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Overall \u2013 B+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/aaaa.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/aaaa.jpg\" alt=\"aaaa\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-152024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/aaaa.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/aaaa-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WELCOME TO ME Alchemy Reviewed by: Harvey Karten for Shockya. 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