‘Away We Go’ Gets Hammered

Away We… RUH ROH! The world’s most charming preview, for Away We Go, is apparently for a movie that is less charming than it might be! “The main sin of ‘Away We Go’ is simple dullness,” says the Liberal Web Times. And then there is a real rib-roasting of Sam Mendes in The Paper That Old People Get Delivered in Westchester.

“Away We Go” — which was directed by Sam Mendes and written by the husband-and-wife team Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida — is, at worst, an exploration of self-absorption that is itself too self-absorbed to be either entertaining or enlightening…. To observe that they inhabit no recognizable American social reality is only to say that this is a film by Sam Mendes, a literary tourist from Britain who has missed the point every time he has crossed the ocean.

But I was ready to really like it! Perhaps I will be defiant and indie and I will enjoy it as a point of hipster perversity.