This Is 40

Trouble with 40 (AKA This Is 40 ) is a film director and screenwriter Judd Apatow from the year of 2012. It is a sequel to Knocked Up. The main characters are Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann play. Jason Segel and Megan Fox are seen in supporting roles.

Action

The music label owner Pete is married to the boutique owner, Debbie, with whom he has two children. The married couple who are struggling with various difficulties. Debbie is 40 and looks her birthday only partly with joy counter. Pete's music label is not financially very well prepared and the recently released album of the musician Graham Parker proves to be a flop. Her daughters Sadie and Charlotte argue constantly and bring extra hustle into family life.

The couple wants to celebrate Debbie's birthday in a romantic hotel, but where they attract negative attention the staff after drinking Hash cookies.

After Debbie seeks advice to her friends Jason and Barb, she decides to bring the family life back in order. It drives more sports and healthier cooking for her family, what with her ​​husband and children on as little enthusiasm comes as new requirements for television and internet use. It seeks contact with her ​​father, from whom she is estranged for years. Pete will also adjust its monetary gifts to his chronically strapped father Larry until he has his financial problems under control again.

Shortly afterwards discovered Debbie that she is pregnant. You want to think about how to proceed initially alone, but is more and more stressed and finally insulted a school child that her daughter Sadie has teased. His mother Catherine gets then with Pete each other, which eventually leads to a meeting with the school administration, where Pete and Debbie play dumb and disclaim any responsibility from himself, whereupon Catherine completely loses his composure.

Debbie fears that her colleague Desi steals money from the cash of the boutique and makes them finally after a joint visit to the Club speech. Desi tells her then that it works the way as an escort girl. Debbie then learns that her hitherto trustworthy appearing Jodi has stolen the money. Debbie then dismisses them.

Finally, at Pete's 40th birthday he gets with his father in a dispute over money, and when he hears Debbie talking about the pregnancy, he takes ado his racing bike and leaves the party. After he has driven an open car door, he gets into a fight with the driver. Debbie and Larry find him and bring him to a hospital, where Larry apologized to Debbie for everything. She forgives him and then reconciled again with Pete, who tells her that he is looking forward to a third child, and she sets out for no reason to worry.

Both attend a concert of Ryan Adams, where Debbie Pete proposes to offer a contract for Pete's label this after the show.

Background

His first performance the film had on December 12, 2012 in Los Angeles. The film's release in Germany was on 14 March 2013.

Two trailer for Judd Apatow's comedy The Trouble With 40 were published on 11 December, 2012.

Reception

The reviews for the film were from largely positive. Praise was next to the cast especially the original script ideas and Apatow's directing.

" The Trouble with 40 ' long and not round, sometimes even annoying, yet one thing: good! Judd Apatow tells times hilarious, sometimes dramatically from the mid-life crisis and all sorts of other problems, but he retains despite all the originality and oversubscription the true essence of things always in view. "

" The Trouble with 40 is a surprisingly good comedy, though the wheel does not necessarily reinventing, but nevertheless sent shirks trite platitudes and full of original ideas and loving details infected. "

As he next with the great first and only season of full and Geeks ( Freaks and Geeks, 1999-2000) proved - - in better hands than with the meandering number revues of his movies "Sometimes the impression that Apatow would be the format of a series produced. But that is done to the films wrong. For one thing, they also offer excellent experimental arrangements for the talent of his actors. On the other hand also allows the scattered [ ..] action but to deviate from conventional patterns. Unlike, say, in the many films in which Apatow merely acts as a producer, the characters here are more than caricatures, to be taken seriously with their problems and also must submit any permanent Pointenraserei. "

Awards

  • Hollywood Film Award: Comedy of the Year 2012

Synchronization

2012 in film Screenplay Barry Mendel Film score Jon Brion Phedon Papamichael Ryan Lee (actor) Tobias Nath Julia Kaufmann Stefan Gossler
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