Peter Bradshaw 

It’s Kind of a Funny Story – review

This sickly, implausible and frankly questionable story of a teenager in a psychiatric hospital from the duo behind Half-Nelson is deeply disappointing, says Peter Bradshaw
  
  

its kind of a funny story
Who's laughing? ... It's Kind of a Funny Story Photograph: Focus Features

No it's not. It's kind of a rubbish story. This cutesy sub-Cuckoo's-Nest indie indulges in what it imagines to be the quirkily cerebral romance of mental illness, in which psychiatric institutions contain a gallery of patients with picturesque problems, all there to provide support to the adorably vulnerable main character, who obviously won't be there for long. Keir Gilchrist plays Craig, a depressed teen who has himself checked into the adult psych ward. Within about a week, he has found redemption through friendship with a non-threateningly wacky mentor figure, played by Zach Galifianakis, and there's even a hot babe, played by Emma Roberts, who's all over him; she cuts herself, incidentally, but not so as you'd notice: Self-Harm Lite. And all of it is supposed to happen in a very short space of time. Sentimental, questionable and boring.

 

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