“Happiest Ending Ever”

“Hotshots” looks at a movie!

Wanderlust stars Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston in what is not so much a romantic comedy as it is just a happy comedy, if there is such a classification.

In fact, the plot is as simple as “Boy has girl, boy almost loses girl, boy and girl stay together.”

However, what makes the movie interesting is where most of the story takes place, which is in a hippie commune that was started in 1971.

George and Linda are a young married couple in New York City whose professional lives take a sudden turn for the worse, and so they decide to pull up stakes and move to Atlanta, where George’s brother and his family live.

After a long drive, Linda insists that she has to get out of the car, and so they drive into a place with a sign that identifies it as “Elysium,” where they are greeted by a slightly overweight, naked man.

Startled, George tries to drive away, but he wrecks the car, and they are forced to stay there in what the residents call an “intentional community.”

When they introduce themselves to the group, George is asked, “If you’re George, where is John, Paul, and Ringo?”

The group claims that they have no leaders, that Mother Earth is the only leader they need, and there are no rules, just the way they all think about stuff.

In addition, there are no doors, even on the bathrooms, all the members share everything, and they believe in open sexual boundaries, which means that anything goes and with anyone.

At first, George likes living there more than Linda does, saying that he feels like he can breathe there for the first time, but then Linda starts to enjoy it more than George does, even though the most attractive woman in the group tells George that she believes that they should have sex together.

The scene in which George tries to prepare himself by boosting his confidence in front of a mirror is one of the funniest in the movie.

However, the plot turns weak when one of the oldest cliches in the world of movie plots occurs, that of developers wanting to take over the land and develop it into something else.

Wanderlust, though, has the happiest ending ever, and make sure you stay for the outtakes.

I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”