How To Be Review

Thinking Of Rob published this review about How to be which stars Robert Pattinson, the film is already out on DVD so maybe we will get it on ‘the big screen’ in the future

‘How to Be,’ a movie writ­ten and pro­duced by Oliver Irv­ing, is a story that revolves around a young man named Arthur Free­man (Robert Pat­tin­son), a strug­gling musi­cian who just got dumped by his girlfriend.

Art goes through a quarter-life cri­sis and des­per­ately needs to find him­self. Unfor­tu­nately for Art he is sur­rounded by peo­ple who have as many prob­lems, if not more, than he does. Although, mind you, they are bet­ter at hid­ing them than he is.

Art decides to take mat­ters into his own hands and starts look­ing for ways to “cure” him­self. While doingso he stum­bles upon the self-help book It’s Not Your Fault writ­ten by Dr. Elling­ton (Pow­ell Jones). Art, believ­ing that this may very well be the solu­tion to his prob­lems, con­tacts Dr. Elling­ton who trav­els from Canada to Eng­land to help Art.

The arrival of Dr. Elling­ton cre­ates all sorts of issues for Art. While he believes Dr. Elling­ton is help­ing him it actu­ally gen­er­ates more chaos in his life. Hilar­ity ensues (shut up in your face) and How to Be becomes a blame game where every­one blames each other for their prob­lems, while for­get­ting to look at them­selves to find the true under­ly­ing issues.

Infused with British humour, How to Be is sure to make you laugh. The char­ac­ters are bril­liantly played by the entire cast. Pat­tin­son shines in the role of the adork­able Art, a role as far removed from Edward Cullen (The Twi­light Saga) as can be. Pat­tin­son shows us that he has more than one trick up his sleeve and a promis­ing act­ing career ahead of him. Irv­ing truly man­ages to con­vey how peo­ple often try to hide their own prob­lems and project them onto others.

The How to Be DVD comes with great bonus fea­tures includ­ing behind the scene and audi­tion footage, a Com­cast inter­view with Robert Pat­tin­son and much more.

How to Be is def­i­nitely a great movie and a must see, because some­times we all need a lit­tle help.