At the beginning of the trailer for The Best and the Brightest, Neil Patrick Harris is just struggling to get his daughter enrolled in a good kindergarten program in New York. By the end he's a famous poet reading sleazy text messages from a friend to an enraptured upper-class audience. How did we get here?
Hard to say! According to the film's synopsis, the movie is mostly about the kindergarten problem. Only that issue isn't mentioned during the entire second half of the trailer. Somehow during this time, Harris tricks New York into thinking that he's a talented poet using only his friends racy instant message chats. If you want to buy into the one joke premise, it's still a little confusing that Harris actually needs a friend to keep providing him with material like "you getting me hot right now, mofo." Unless his character doesn't have the internet?
But, hey! Harris seems really likable, as usual. And not surprisingly, Amy Sedaris also has a few pretty great moments. Even so, this famous poet idea seems like an awfully thin one-joke premise to drag through such a convoluted plot.
Verdict: Pass.
[via Just Jared]