In a World...
2013
**½
Director: Lake Bell
Cast: Lake Bell, Demetri Martin, Fred Melamed, Rob Corddry, Michaela Watkins, Ken Marino, Nick Offerman, Tig Notaro
Lake Bell's directorial debut is set in the world of voice artists. She plays a vocal coach who tries to break away from the shadow of her father, a narcissistic man whose deep voice has graced many a film trailer. The setting is unusual and the characters sympathetic, but the resulting comedy is thoroughly inconsequential. A bunch of stuff happens for 90 minutes and then it's over. There are two romantic subplots which add nothing to the main story, and in the last ten minutes, the film's smart and dryly cynical tone makes way for a terribly sentimental ending.
