The Guilt Trip-2012

Director Anne Fletcher

Starring Seth Rogen, Barbra Streisand

Scott’s Review #89

Reviewed July 3, 2014

Grade: C+

The Guilt Trip (2012) is a lightweight, fun piece of fluff.

It stars Seth Rogen as a thirty-something single guy from New Jersey with a Jewish (in every clichéd way) overbearing mother played by Barbra Streisand.

Through circumstances at his job, they are forced to take a road trip cross-country to California, where they are to meet a long-lost beau of hers.

If not for the talents and humor of Barbra Streisand, this movie would have been a dud. It’s a dumb movie, but Streisand plays her overbearing, annoying character to the hilt and makes her lovable.

There is nice chemistry between Streisand and Rogen, though frankly, I wonder why Streisand has turned to mindless comedy instead of more highbrow work.

Rogen plays a character he has played time and time again in these types of films.

The film screams predictable throughout; like similar road-trip comedies, it hits all the United States’ geographical stereotypes (cowboys, steakhouses, bull-riding, etc.).

A dumb film made somewhat enjoyable by the two leads.