Pivoting an entire film around a Bob Ross-ish artist should be the starting point for craziness, not an end unto itself, and yet director Brit McAdams and Owen Wilson refuse to inject their material with zaniness. Read beastobsessed's review of 'Paint':
), the last of whom was once his true-love girlfriend before fame and betrayal spoiled their romance.
Considering that Carl is the type of full-of-himself buffoon who says, "I feel like sometimes being the total package makes it hard for people to see the gift inside,” he bristles at Ambrosia stealing his thunder—and his audience.
McAdams and Wilson are committed to the notion of Carl as a placid Zen-like figure but they can’t make up their minds about whether he’s callously cocky, cluelessly tender, or merely depressed. The balance between soothing Ross-ian mildness and roiling inner turmoil doesn’t take, and though a couple of gags land—such as Tony understanding that Carl’s silence is his way of madly screaming—Wilson never figures out how to mirthfully amalgamate his protagonist’s contradictions.
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