Angel and Tiggs

I had the impression that Jason Sudeikis is starting to grow up. Compared to his previous movies (Horrible Bosses 1 and 2 and We’re the Millers for example), his cynical humour has stepped up a notch towards maturity and sophisticated sarcasm. The goofy days are starting to be in the mirror. I usually split Sudeiki’s movies into three parts. Sleeping with Other People is an improved “classic”.

• The porn beginnings – meaning each story starts with several awkward and funny situations that will eventually develop into a scrambled plot.
• Jason in the (random) middle – all sorts of things happen there. If you manage to get through this sometimes confusing and mixed-message part of the plot, you’ll be ok. It’s normally a funny but somewhat disconnected set of events.

We knew it – the ending part is quite obvious.

It occurred to me that Jason Sudeikis must play his real-life character in the movies. The guy is a natural and has a knack for portraying embarrassingly raunchy situations. He always starts as a highly attractive jerk, sex-addict man-whore, always fished by the exact opposite type of personality, so he can turn into a more conservative and attached man as the story goes by.

This time he went deeper though. Unlike other silly roles, the movie deals with very modern and adult relationship topics. Those go from the benefits of a bachelor life (vs. marriage with kids), dating at work and even, believe it or not, reflections on abusive relationships. I also liked the way the story flowed. It was more complex and realistic, truly above average.