Humor Me, written and directed by Sam Hoffman - 9 out of 10

Humor Me, written and directed by Sam Hoffman
9 out of 10


Humor Me is an excellent comedy.

It benefits from a great script and director- the writer is also the director.
Furthermore, the actor in the leading role, Jemaine Clement, is wonderful, charismatic, talented, we should see him in mainstream, big budget films, if we are not talking Avengers or other productions that appear to waste the skills of those involved and the time of the discerning audiences.

Cherry on top, we have a Giant of cinema, the eternal Eliott Gould in the role of the father, Bob Kroll.
Jemaine Clement plays Nate Kroll, the son.

Nate is a playwright who has had an important success with a play that announced him as a future established writer.
As he tries to create another landmark work, his wife, Nirit, leaves him for a French billionaire.

She takes their son away and they would communicate over Skype, with details of the luxurious, resplendent life she enjoys in Monet Carlo and other exuberant places given over the internet.
For lack of choice, the struggling author tries to stay for a while with his brother, but he is refused.

The only option left is to move in with his father, in the well off retirement community where he now lives.
Bob Kroll does not want his son to lay about and he is very astute in his psychological assessment- when faced with adversity, we need to engage in activities and with other people.

The sure path to depression is to opt for isolation and sitting about.
However, the work found for poor Nate is both amusing and objectionable.

He has to fold some towels first and then he is made to wipe the floor in the locker room of the club and at the toilet.
As the protagonist rightly objects, he is a playwright and he has had one immense success!

While working in this job for which he is overqualified, he has though the chance to direct an amateur play...
A new version of...

The Mikado

One of the old ladies involved in the project invites the director at her house for dinner.
This attracts the wrath of the man who employed and supervised Nate, an ex marine who has plans with the retired woman...

The hero has arrived with a scooter and he is now chased by an old man driving a golf cart!
The former marine had threatened to crash his wind pipe if he interfered with his romantic plans.

Meanwhile, Bob is a sunny, happy, serene individual who keeps making jokes, although some have been told multiple times.

There is a doctor in most of them, who at one point finds his patient with broccoli in the hair, some jam on / in/ near the nose and so on...
The doctor says:

You are not eating well, if I remember at least the jest of it.

Another funny story is even acted in the film, with characters filmed in black and white...
On this island, there is one survivor of a ship wreck or some other accident and he is alone with a dog and a sheep.
With time passing, the isolated man starts fancying the sheep...

Only every time he tries to approach the seemingly attractive animal, the dog would not let it, biting the ecstatic man...
A beautiful woman is saved from another ship wreck and she says:

You saved me, I will do anything you want for you!
Really?
You gave life...everything you ask...
Would you take the dog for a walk?

Humor me is an excellent, remarkable film.