Review of While We're Young

WHILE WE'RE YOUNG (2015) **1/2 Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried, Maria Dizzia, Adam Horovitz, Charles Grodin, Brady Corbet, Peter Bogdanovich (cameo). Hit-and-miss domestic comedy about Generation X and Generation WTF from filmmaker Noah Baumbach with Stiller and Watts as a forty something NYC couple who meet twenty somethings Driver and Seyfried and see their carefree spirits as possible rekindling their stilted relationship, and even lighting a creative fire to their collaborative careers. While Stiller continues his put-upon misanthrope to a T, Watts is miscast not finding a comedic footing and Driver is a cottage industry of someone you want to repeatedly throat punch until he's dead. The film attempts to show the similarities and differences in various ways and while it has echoes of Albert Brooks/Woody Allen it becomes a flattened soufflé of angst thru humor.