More like President Dump lol

Jack Nicholson ragebaits Adam Sandler and I for an hour and a half in between cameo appearances from the likes of Woody Harrelson, John C Reilly, and that dude who touches himself in front of someone he thinks is 15 in the second Borat movie. Not great, too anxious and mean-spirited to allow your brain to turn off, but honestly, it got a handful of laughs out of me. Jack Nicholson can do no wrong, absolutely outshines everyone on the cast.

Oh my goodness, a wild Joseph Duffy!

I get what the film is trying to do, what it's trying to say, Richard Gere is really fantastic, but I just found the broader whole very disjointed and unfocused. Part of it is definitely intentional, given the film's framing with the state of Leonard, there's definitely supposed to a certain disappointment by the end, but the message it leaves with you with ultimately feels a bit flat.

Very clearly owes a lot to Ghibli, something Ugo Bienvenu was open about in the Q&A, and not just in terms of visuals. That thematic clash of optimism and pessimism that both he and Natalie Portman went into, it's very core to Miyazaki's work as well. It isn't just some derivative style over substance knockoff though, it has its own voice, its own heart, and it creates a world all its own.

Someone also brought their kid to the screening, and the way Natalie kept trading faces with them during the Q&A was very wholesome.