It's not often that you find a comedy with Jennifer Aniston where she isn't playing a single, successful woman or a woman in a marriage she hates. As a friend said, "you wouldn't find her playing a single, alcoholic mother of one on a council estate." Surprisingly she's in a functioning relationship with Paul Rudd as her husband. Wanderlust is a culture-clash comedy that is crude and excessive but funny all the same. When George (Rudd) and Linda (Aniston) buy a "microloft" in New York, they realize it was a mistake and to top things off, George loses his job the following week and Linda fails to pitch a docu-drama to HBO about penguins with cancer. Deciding to head to Atlanta where George's grotesque brother lies in wait, a manufactor of Porta-Loos to construction sites, they take a detour to a bed and breakfast hotel that turns out to be a hippy commune. Led by an acid-destroyed Alan Alda and irritating "guru-shaman" Seth (Justin Theroux), they try to leave but are soon captivated by the whole free-spirit community. Wanderlust is crude with all the hippy cliches in the book, but somehow it manages to squeeze 98 minutes of entertainment for the audience. The highlights being of course, Ken Marino and Michaela Watkins as Rick and Marisa, George's brother and sister-in-law.
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