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'IF' Review

#IFMovie Review: "The imaginary characters and goofy jokes make it enjoyable for a family-friendly viewing. More importantly, this film teaches children how to navigate loss and helps adults reminisce about childhood dreams."

By: Amanda Guarragi When we become adults, we never fully realize the transformation into adulthood. We don’t remember the last time we picked up a toy or played outside. It’s dramatic to say the “last time,” so let me add the “last time with childlike wonderment.” It’s sad to say this because it is hard to remember. Sometimes there is a trauma in your life that blocks out pieces of your…

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"IF" deserves better than what it's been getting

IF is not your typical summer movie. Previews led us to believe this was just a kids movie with Ryan Reynolds wisecracking with a bunch of celebrity-voiced imaginary friends. What we get is something is something surprisingly more emotional.

Bea (Cailey Fleming) is spending the summer with her grandmother (Fiona Shaw) while her dad (John Krasinski) is getting heart surgery. It's a very emotional time for Bea, who has already had to grow up fast after her mother's passing years before. However, her forgotten inner child comes knocking when she discovers that Calvin (Ryan Reynolds), her upstairs neighbor is sheltering a bunch of imaginary friends, or IFs for short.

The imaginary friends are all sorts of zany: awkward and sweet Grimace lookalike Blue (Steve Carrell), kindly butterfly Blossom (Phoebe Waller-Bridge), elderly teddy bear Lewis (Louis Gosset Jr in his final role), and nutty private eye Cosmo, just to name a few. All of their children have grown up and forgotten them. Since Bea can see them despite her age, she and Calvin attempt to find them new children that they look out for.

Yes, this sounds a lot like Foster's Home for Imaginary Kids, at least in the beginning. And yet halfway through the story, the film changes its tone quite drastically. It switches from the easy laughs and sight gags from the celebrity voice cameos to the heavy poignancy achieved in Pixar films.

It's obvious that director and writer Krasinski was inspired by Inside Out and how imaginary friend Bing Bong ripped our hearts out. Instead of the IFs being forgotten, they get one last chance to reconnect with their adult children in a way that gives them closure. Maybe it isn't realistic, but it sure is beautiful to watch.

IF doesn't feel like a summer movie because it was supposed to be released last November. Its whimsy poignancy would have fit in better in the holiday movie season, but that doesn't mean it still doesn't deserve a chance. If anyone is to blame for the so-called summer slump, it's the studios for not ending the strikes sooner. But that doesn't let audiences off the hook for not giving good (if not perfect) movies a chance while they're still in theaters.

Give IF a chance. You'll be glad you did.

8 out of 10

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Beautiful IF.

This evening, my wife and I went to see a movie. This isn't anything unusual, we love the theater, and will take any excuse we can to go when she has time. Last we were able to get out just the two of us, it was to see Lisa Frankenstein, which I wholly recommend by the way. It was great, feminist as fuck, and frankly (see what I did) fun as hell.

But that's not why I'm here tonight.

Tonight, we're here for John Krasinski's IF.

IF is a movie that's part of a rare genre. The Family Film. You know, the kind that came out when millennials were children, like The Addams Family, or Hocus Pocus. A movie made for everyone to enjoy.

Now this is probably confirmation bias, since most of the fandoms I'm in are serious business, or at least they think they are, and such most of what I watch is grim, dark, or otherwise edgy. I won't deny being an edge marquis, I've been one since middle school and I'm not stopping now!

This movie, simply put, is beautiful. As we start to see more and more art about fighting (or subliminally supporting) fascism, it's like we shy away from beauty and instead want to focus wholly on how dark things are for us. And with a constant barrage of messaging like that, it's hard to stay hopeful, easy to stay mad.

Then we get a movie like IF. It takes a look at life through the most hopeful lens it can, a kid's. I don't want to get too into the story because my roommate reads this and I want them to see this as blindly as they can, but I'll tell you this: IF wants you to know that it's okay to be a kid.

But what does that mean? To be a kid? Is it to engage in wild flights of fancy where you imagine great, impossible things like an elephant made of cotton candy? Is it using play to cope with hard times? To be innocent? What is innocence anyway?

IF isn't trying to answer those questions at all. All IF cares about is that you know that it's okay to be a kid, no matter what.

For a super spoiler-free quick rundown, IF follows the adventures of Bea as she tries to help place imaginary friends (IFs) with new kids and find a new sense of purpose. Imagine (heh) Foster's Home for Imaginary (heh) Friends, but age Mac up a year and have her partner be a big furry purple guy (Hey! Like Eduardo!) named... Blue? Is this possibly an... GASP! AN EASTER EGG RIGHT THERE?! The big difference is that imaginary friends can't really be seen by anyone, except Bea and this other guy, Calvin. We'll talk about him later.

So let's talk about the rest of the movie, because there's not much more I can say without spoilers.

Just look at this man. He's distinct. You know EXACTLY what he's about, who he is, everything you need, just from looking at him.

And the same holds true of every other IF that you see (and don't) on screen. The team that worked on them did an immaculate job, perfectly capturing a child's imagination and how they see the world around them in these funny lil guys. Like how Blue is purple because his kid was colorblind, so he looked blue TO HIS KID, and how the robot IF was the kind of thing that a kid fond of taking things apart might imagine as their friend. Their personalities are all so clear, and when they're on screen they really steal the show.

Speaking of theft, let's talk the casting. Cailey Fleming plays Bea and gosh is her performance just the tops. Her first onscreen part was as young Rey in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (which I didn't watch because I just don't care much for Star Wars). This is the first place I've seen her work, and I one hundred percent believed she was actually John Krasinski's daughter.

Who, by the way, plays her dad. A lovable goofball who tries to find the fun in everything, he's sick (though we're never told with what) and is in New York for surgery. It's a big one, apparently, and there's a chance he won't wake up from the anesthesia, but he's determined to make it through. Really, what can I say about Krasinski's acting that fans of The Office haven't already said? This guy is the kind of dad I want to be when I eventually have kids.

Steve Carell voices Blue, the big purple IF on the poster. Sure, I guess if I had A critique of this movie, it's that it's another Steve Carell Funny Voice(TM) but fuck off, I had fun and it was clear he loved the project. I loved Blue, I thought he was funny and so sweet, and he was just so goddamned lovable that I genuinely had no notes.

Last, and he'd probably say least, Ryan Reynolds plays Calvin, a very handsome gentleman who can also see the IFs like Bea can. He started the effort to rehome IFs with new kids, but hasn't had much success at the time the movie starts. He's a bit of a curmudgeon, pessimistic that anything they do will work, and refers to his ability to see them as a curse, but he still does everything he can to help Bea place IFs in new homes. While still your typical wise-cracking Ryan Reynolds character, it was interesting to see him playing a character who's not about diving into things headfirst, instead giving us a more timid person who would really rather be asleep.

The cast all worked exceptionally well together. As I said, I came out of this movie truly believing that Fleming was Krasinski's daughter, and the chemistry between her and Reynolds was amazing. They really felt like friends, and I never once felt like their relationship was weird in any way. Carell and Fleming were also delightful together, with Blue serving as wonderful comedy relief.

Lastly, I guess is the score, right? I'm new to caring about this, so forgive me if I forget an important part.

Music was done by Michael Giacchino, who's score was frankly perfect. He captured the vibe perfectly, and I can honestly think of no higher praise for a film score. In particular, there was a scene that really hit me, and if the Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia hadn't been the song used, I'm not sure I'd have cried near as hard.

So that's it. IF. A beautiful movie, a poignant message, and something that I think everyone could benefit from seeing.

Because what IF it's right? And it IS okay to be a kid?

That means anything is possible, doesn't it? What IF you COULD have a cotton candy elephant? Or a small army of Bionicle robots who are fiercely loyal to you as you lead them across Mata Nui to expunge the darkness? (Don't tell me you didn't do this. If you had Bionicle, you did this.)

What IF?

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IF (2024) review

Seems like John Krasinski wanted to apologise to his kids after scarring them for life with A Quiet Place.

Plot: After discovering she can see everyone's imaginary friends, a girl embarks on a magical adventure to reconnect forgotten imaginary friends with their kids.

One must ponder the question WHAT IF John Krasinski decided to make a good movie? Okay, that’s harsh, but in all seriousness IF isn’t a great film. About 30 minutes into watching this, I realized it wasn't going to have the broad, universal appeal of many films in this genre. It's extremely sad in parts, and then shifts to total silliness, then back to sad again. Films can be a lot of things at different times, but it was sort of whiplash here going from silly to sad and back again. As such it begs the question who this movie is intended for? Naturally one would think children as it’s got goofy imaginary characters and a lot of slapstick and stupid jokes, but then there are genuinely depressing and hard-hitting moments where it seems to connect more with adults and their traumatic experiences. The film suffers a huge identity crisis that is its primary downfall.

Also IF is boring. The plot just sort of wanders and things happen that bear no purpose towards progressing the primary narrative. The characters are also poorly written without, dare I say, much imagination, with Cailey Fleming as the little girl protagonist being extremely monotone and lifeless, and for someone who’s supposed to be inspiring and helping these imaginary friends find a new home, she lacks any energy to motivate. I recall she was way more likeable and charismatic as Judith Grimes in The Walking Dead and it’s not like that show is known for great writing, especially in the later seasons, yet there she left much more of an impression than in this film. Ryan Reynolds is enjoying his cool uncle era, yet even he felt really restrained here. Like it is still Reynolds doing his shtick, but it was missing something which I can’t put my finger on. As for the imaginary friends themselves, there are lots of voice cameos featured throughout, but again not many of these creatures actually had that memorable of a personality. Steve Carell is trying his upmost best as the big purple fluff that’s walked out of Monsters Inc., but I was finding him irritating more than anything. Of the more amusing ones there was Richard Jenkins as an Art Teacher and he has the most delightful voice, Bradley Cooper as a glass of ice which I found more entertaining than I should have, and Sam Rockwell as a superhero dog deserves a movie of his own. And again why the hell is Awkwafina in this? She’s voiced characters in like a gazillion animations in the last decade but her voice is so grading.

Usually I would admit to not being the right target audience for a movie that’s billed as for children, however in this case I feel the movie doesn’t really fit for anyone per se. It does seem that John Krasinski works best when there’s less dialogue like with his spectacular horror A Quiet Place, yet here IF seems to miss the mark. I’m certain this is done with good intentions, and maybe I’m being overly cynical here, but IF does not paint a solid case for imaginary friends.

Overall score: 3/10

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And some outside of New York.

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"IF" Movie Review

John Krasinski‘s latest film is quite a departure from the Quiet Place movies. In IF, the weird creatures aren’t attacking anyone at all. After losing her mother to cancer, Bea (Cailey Fleming) moves in with her grandmother (Fiona Shaw) while her father (John Krasinski) has heart surgery. She meets Calvin (Ryan Reynolds), a man who lives upstairs and is trying to find new children to adopt…

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RYAN REYNOLDS has added a post to INSTAGRAM: @.vancityreynolds: i was told i have promote my new movie, so IF you want to watch a movie with the amazing Cailey Fleming and the okay Blake Lively make sure you don't miss IF soon on theatres everywhere... that's the movie right?

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looking in the comments of cailey fleming's post about her new movie and the whole twd cast being supportive and congratulating her is the sweetest thing oh my god

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The Walking Dead's eleventh season will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on March 14 via Lionsgate. This is the final season of AMC's hit zombie show, although several spin-offs are already in development.

Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Lauren Cohan, Christian Serratos, Josh McDermitt, Seth Gilliam, Ross Marquand, Khary Payton, Cooper Andrews, Callan McAuliffe, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Eleanor Matsuura, Lauren Ridloff, Cailey Fleming, Nadia Hilker, Cassady McClincy, Angel Theory, Paola Lázaro, Michael James Shaw, Josh Hamilton, and Laila Robins star

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Ep. 1110 "New Haunts"

Ep. 1110 "Rogue Element"  

Daryl and Maggie embark on a risky mission with Negan to root out the shadowy Reapers while Eugene and Ezekiel make contact with the sprawling Commonwealth. To secure aid for Alexandria – their goal – they must assimilate…a tough ask for people who’ve seen no end of deceit, betrayal, and loss. Stunned by the Commonwealth’s resources, the group slowly adjusts to their new home, but they can’t ignore what lurks beneath its seemingly civilized surface. Soon, threats abound, loyalties are tested, and shocking fates await. But the fight for the future, threatened by an ever-growing population of walkers, means the walking dead will live on….  

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just saw the dead city trailer and ran here. What do you think about the time jump there with older Hershel playing into everyone reuniting with the CRM? Ready for your FTWD analysis too. also just realized FTWD will probably coincide with dead city. Going into the new phase with low expectations and hopefully a good outcome🤞🏻

Yeah, I saw them. Super exciting! The thing is, I don't think Hershel will actually be significantly older. I seem to remember them talking about a very small time jump, like maybe a few months, but I don't think it will be more than that. The actor who plays Hershel does look older, but that's just because kids age so quickly on film. It's been 2 years since this young man first portrayed Hershel, so of course he'll look older. That doesn't mean he is in the show.

Cailey Fleming, who plays Judith on the show, is kind of an exception here. She's a 14-year-old who still looks like she's ten, lol. But that's not true of most kids. So, I wouldn't worry overly much about there being a time jump.

As for other observations about the two new trailers, here is what I sent my fellow theorists:

@twdmusicboxmystery:

A few things that immediately jumped out at me.

Maggie says someone is “the key” to getting Hershel back. We’re meant to believe she’s talking to Negan, and she may be. But we know they can sometimes splice together trailers in a way that can be misleading. But this is a theme we saw heavily in S4 and S5, including around Grady.

The storyline they lay out for Fear, brief tho it may be, feels like a template for the CRM. People raising an army to challenge a larger organization.

June looks exactly like Leah in this picture:

Any insight into who the guy in the wanted poster is? It COULD be Rick. Doesn’t look like him in particular, but closer to him than to Beth, lol.

I got IMDb to try and confirm weather or not they’re using the same actor for Hershel. I think they are, but none of the spin-offs are listed anywhere on IMDb yet. Not Dead City and not Daryl Dixon. Which is a little strange since fans can edit the pages. It’s odd that no one has added them.

I almost feel like maybe they’re purposefully being kept off the pages for now. Though I don’t know why they would do that.

@galadrieljones:

That is weird about IMDb. I agree it makes it seem like they don’t want the info out there. It’s strange like the spin offs still don’t seem real? Esp the Daryl one.

@wdway:

You asked who we thought was in the wanted poster. I think it is Negan.

I've been thinking about some of the scenes that we've seen in the past seasons that implied that Negan might know something about the CRM but maybe not realize that's who it is and I think that Negan might be smart enough not to question certain things to closely.

When Jadis held him at the junkyard she called the CRM helicopter which he saw. Nothing was ever explained about how he just totally ignored that. At the satellite station they had a room where they were growing pot I wonder if he was growing pot to sell to some group connected to the CMR in exchange for other medical supplies like insulin that we saw with Tina, Sherry and Dwight had stolen when they left the sanctuary.

In Here's Negan there was a lot of open questions about the cancer medicine he got from the doctor in the RV. It just seem to me there are a lot of questions that were put out and then skipped over.

@twdmusicboxmystery:

Great points! I hadn't thought of that. 👍

So, these are our initial thoughts about the two trailers. What does everyone else think?

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This brand-new book is the perfect thing to pick up to cap off summer! Scars Publications just released the Down in the Dirt‘s May-August 2024 issue collection book “A Library of Collaboration”! This 422-page volume is a great way to stock up on issues if you didn’t buy all of the issues making this a GREAT deal! A listing of all the contributors and titles is available at Scars online, and authors are also listed in the description now online through Amazon throughout the U.S. and Canada. They can also be ordered in the U.K., all of Europe, and even Japan and Australia!

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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Sits High On Official Film Chart

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes marks a second week as the UK’s Number 1 film. The fourth instalment of the rebooted Planet of the Apes series outsell the rest of the Top 5 combined, on digital downloads only, to land another week at the top of the Official Film Chart. This week’s highest new entry is IF (2), starring Cailey Fleming and Ryan Reynolds, and written and directed by John…

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471: The True Depth

IF.

John Krasinski is known for his stand-out role in The Office as Jim Halpert but in the last few years he’s become known as a fine director of films with original ideas. 

In this episode of The 602 Club hosts Matthew Rushing and Christy Morris talk about IF. We discuss coming into the movie, dealing with loss, childhood, our favorite IF, the cast, the music, being family friendly and our ratings. 

Chapters Coming Into the Movie (00:02:44) Dealing With Loss (00:06:29) Childhood (00:18:03) A Favorite IF (00:29:11) Cailey Fleming (00:31:35) Ryan Reynolds (00:34:35) John Krasinski (00:38:25) Fiona Shaw (00:40:51) Alan Kim (00:42:54) The Music (00:43:31) Family Friendly (00:45:29) Ratings (00:48:52)

Host Matthew Rushing

Co-Host Christy Morris 

Production Matthew Rushing (Editor and Producer) C Bryan Jones (Executive Producer) Matthew Rushing (Executive Producer) 

Social Twitter: @The602Club Instagram: @the602clubtfm

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IF Review

A movie that should appeal to little kids but will bore adults, like a live-action Minions movie. There's lots of goofy brightly-colored animated characters. But some quirky childish magic, like Willy Wonka, would have helped sell the movie.

The story is all over the place and the human characters are pretty dull. The story doesn't really know what it's trying to say. It starts off trying to find new homes for the IFs, then completely changes directions to reuniting IFs with their humans, then finishes off with helping the main girl through a tough time. It's not hard to think about far better works Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and A Monster Calls, which handled this exact same story far better.

There's a few twists, but they're so predictable they can be figured out from the trailers. There's a lot of huge holes the movie doesn't bother with, like why the grandmother doesn't seem to care where her granddaughter is most of the day or why the father is in the hospital for days but never seems sick.

The IFs could be a big more imaginative, as most of them just seem like random objects with a face and not all what a kid would make into a friend.

It has a huge cast that it doesn't fully utilize. Steve Carrell's Blue is fun to watch. Louis Gossett Jr.'s has some meaningful moments in one of his final performances. Jon Stewart's Robot has some good one-liners. But the rest of the voice cast is forgettable. The other IFs have pretty forgettable voices, and should have gone to actual voice actors.

Cailey Fleming is fine though nothing special. John Krasinski is trying maybe a bit too hard to be fun and silly. Ryan Reynolds is completely underutilized, too much of the straight man which goes against his skills. It almost seems like Krasinski and Reynolds should have switched roles.

The movie looks nice but is forgettable. For the same story, 2016's A Monster Calls handled it far better.

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IF Final Trailer

A girl discovers that she can see everyone's imaginary friends. The imaginary friends, or IFs, need to find new kids when their old ones get too old for them.

IF stars Ryan Reynolds, Steve Carell, John Krasinski, Cailey Fleming, Fiona Shaw, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and Louis Gossett Jr. The film is written and directed by John Krasinski.

IF releases to theaters on May 17, 2024.