Keeping Up with the Jones (2016)

Zack Galifianakis works in HR for a large military contractor, his wife Isla Fisher is an interior decorator and homemaker, they consider themselves a boring couple; but the summer glamorous new neighbors the Jones (Jon Hamm, Gal Gadot) movie onto their cul-de-sac, well life doesn't stay boring for long. Despite its generally poor reviews I thought that Keeping Up with the Jones was a perfectly good comedy, in fact a better then average entry in the 'there is something odd about the new neighbors' subgenera. The cast is game, they're not breaking any new ground but they are giving the proceedings just the right amount of energy. Galifianakis even gets to play a relatively competent character for a change. The revel of the big bad guy at the end is the request gage, but it works, as does the whole film because it doesn't make the mistake of thinking itself any smarter or more clever then it actually is. ***