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Directed By
Jonathan Glatzer
Written By:
Jonathan Glatzer, Robert Lawson
Cast:
Steve Coogan, Hilary Duff, Molly Shannon, Olivia Thirlby, Josh Peck, Max Hoffman, Sarah Lind, Molly Price, Kendra Sue Waldman, Aaron Brooks, Alexia Fast, Patrick Gilmore, Barry Greene, Geoff Gustafson, Alana Husband, Katie Messina, Brenna O'Brien, Gabrielle Rose, Parm Soor, Vanesa Tomasino, Andrew Wheeler, Ashley Whillans, Andrea Brooks, Ingrid Nilson, Laura Konechny, Aubrey Mozino
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What Goes Up (2009)
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Movie Review by Zara 
June 17th, 2009
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Oh dear lord, another depressing movie in which you take a lot of interesting young actors, add a couple of interesting aged actors, give the movie no plot but attach it to a national tragedy (in this case it's the explosion of The Challenger in 1986).
All of these things might be interesting if you had just the right actor, just the right story, just the right setting. And concentrated on just ONE of these factors. But when you jump all around and not focus on anything long enough, you have just another movie made by a person with an incredible short attention span. And the quickest way to bore and frustrate a person with a short attention span (for example: me) is to jump all over the place without having at least one thing that's important to convey.
This movie reminds me of how SNOW ANGELS tried to do the same thing and just made me angry. Being weird or strange or different than everyone else does not make a movie interesting. Weird people are NOT always interesting. Sometimes they're just people who need to fade into the wallpaper and not get a movie devoted to them.
You want a chaotic movie that is depressing but satisfying, go with THE UNITED STATES OF LELAND. There's a movie with good actors, a definitive story and it far from sucks. I won't completely give up on new time director Jonathan Glatzer, but I can't speak for Hollywood and if it's given up on him already, evidenced by releasing this movie direct to DVD with no theater run.
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