I sat down to watch Keeping Up With The Joneses without any grand expectations, and that’s probably the best way to go into it, should you choose to do so.

Starring John Hamm, Gal Gadot, Zach Galifianakis and Isla Fisher, I must say that I found this Greg Mottola-directed action/comedy only mildly funny.

There are indeed a couple of moments that made the experience less regrettable. The first being the nicely executed snake scene in the Chinese restaurant. The second is when Galifianakis’s character makes a joke at the expense of the British. It could be that I found it particularly hilarious because the United Kingdom is home. It’s more likely though, that it’s Galifianakis’s excellent comic timing and delivery. Beyond these two scenes, everything else about Keeping Up With The Joneses just felt like cheap filler because it wasn’t that good.

One last good thing Mottola’s movie did is remind me that Wonder Woman (2017), my most highly anticipated movie of 2017 will be here in not too many months. I for one cannot wait to see its star Gal Gadot do her thing.

Happy Film Loving,

G