'The idea of playing something as deadly as this for laughs is a good one because maybe people will actually start to see ultimately the health of this planet is no real joke,' writes DeadlinePete in his review of DontLookUp
and the amusingly political has now landed on his deep concern about the ever-growing climate crisis in his star-studded latestMcKay actually initially intended this as a more serious take on the subject, and in fact told me in 2018 he was mulling doing a movie that would deal in a major way with our seeming blindness to an impending environmental nightmare unless we start to act.
Assembling a killer cast, McKay takes the absurdity of having just six months to fend off our total destruction, but in the era of social media, one-note news shows and general malaise, no one seems to be getting the message. It is hilarious and frighteningly plausible all at the same time. Leonardo DiCaprio is Dr.
In the mix we also have a dead-on Mark Rylance as a sort of Zuckerberg/Bezos-style billionaire with his own answers to the impending doom. There’s also Timothée Chalamet, and even Arianda Grande turning up, the latter with a LOL song that has to be heard to be believed.
DiCaprio is excellent as a guy who has seem the dreary future but can’t seem to get anyone to listen to him. Streep is a riot as a clueless President, while Hill steals every scene he is in as the object of her employing nepotism in putting her own kid in a key White House role; you don’t have to think long and hard where McKay got the idea for that. Blanchett is having a ball as your typical entertainment-oriented blond anchorwoman, and Perry nicely balances her.
Producers are McKay and Kevin J. Messick. Netflix releases it in theaters Friday and begins streaming on December 24.Let us know what you think.
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