While the movie does have a cappella singing in it, you don't have to be a big fan of that music to appreciate it (although it is really good in the movie). It's really about the pre-midlife crisis that these guys who used to be in an a cappella group are now facing in their mid-30s as they get together again to sing at a wedding. The acting is really solid and there are so many good characters that you're bound to relate to one of them. Molly Shannon shows she can do a lot more than prat falls playing an outspoken wife who is at times hilarious and also very serious. Guys will love Elssa the Swedish nanny that they all dream about in the movie (a very funny sequence) and women will swoon over the Keanu Reeves-like character Spooner. There are so many laugh-out-loud lines in the movie that I want to see it again to catch them all (unfortunately it's not in theaters yet, I saw it at the HBO Comedy Festival). I saw that it is playing at the Gen Arts Film Festival in NYC in April so try to see it there. YOU WILL LOVE THIS MOVIE!
Review of Shut Up and Sing
