A few weeks ago Dave O. from MovieSet.com asked me to do a review of how to be. It’s been posted on their site here. I’m post­ing it here on ToR as well so here it is. Let me know what you think.

“Think­ing of Rob” Review of ‘How to Be’
by @FakerParis for MovieSet.com

‘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.

How To Be – Trailer

A young man hav­ing an exis­ten­tial cri­sis con­vinces a Cana­dian self-help guru to come to Lon­don and become his per­sonal life coach.