Even A Solo Would Have Been Bad
I walked into this film knowing absolutely nothing about it, except that Gwenth Paltrow was in it. I left very disappointed. The story follows a set of characters around the midwest as they all eventually head towards a Karaoke competition in Nevada. The movie relies heavily on character interaction in the film and during the film you explore a midlife crisis, an absent dad reunited with his daughter and an ex-con on a karaoke crime spree.
The movie tried to take itself too serious and at the end you feel like you invested a lot of emotional energy into the movie, but with very little payoff. The setting for the film could have inspired a sitcom, but it doesn't go off well as a drama. While the whole time I wanted to like the characters, at the end of the day their neverending quest for the next karaoke bar seemed like the wrong motivators. I'd stay away from this one unless it's just you, a bunch of your girlfriends and a half gallon of Hagan Daaz.