Puff N Stuff

I had heard some pretty good reviews for a little known indie film called The Puffy Chair. It was said this was a more realistic Little Miss Sunshine.

I happen to like Little Miss Sunshine because the characters aren't so realistic. Greg Kinnear's character, in particular, is a bit exaggerated, but perhaps the entire family is.

What would happen if there was a road trip where the members were a bit more realistic, less amusing, and realistically dysfunctional.

In this case, the film starts off with a guy who wants to go visit his dad and give him a "puffy chair" he found on EBay as a birthday present. They had a chair just like it when they grew up. Initially, he doesn't want to take his girlfriend on the trip. He's meeting up with her when a friend calls, and he prefers to be all pal-y with him, much to her dismay. She can't stand that he spends more time wanting to be with his friends instead of paying attention to her.

He agrees to bring her on the trip. They drop by to see his brother, where they expect they will say hi, and that will be that. But he decides he wants to go along too, and the brother reluctantly agrees, as does his girlfriend, even though they expected to be with one another by themselves during the trip. This already ruins what personal plans they had, and you can already see the friction of the entire situation.

Anyway, after 10 minutes, I couldn't watch anymore. Not that I thought it was so bad, but that I didn't really want to see a realistic portrayal of a family about to implode. It could have been good, but I simply wasn't in the mood to watch it.

I'll probably watch it again later on, but more likely through something like Netflix.