‘Don’t Look Up’ Review: The Sky Is Falling in Adam McKay’s Crank Comet Comedy

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‘Don’t Look Up’ Review: The Sky Is Falling in Adam McKay’s Crank Comet Comedy
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In DontLookUp, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence play scientists with a Cassandra problem, futilely trying to warn earthlings that their days are numbered.

, clearly having more fun than we are) or bobblehead media that there’s a comet hurtling toward Earth.

Shrill and self-righteous though it can be, this starry comedy is McKay’s way of raising the alarm on global warming, an issue that DiCaprio and no less a figure than ex-veep Al Gore have struggled to turn into compelling cinema.

The plot of “Don’t Look Up” is intricate enough that McKay would have done well to rein in the improv, rather than letting everyone “American Hustle” their way through scenes . The director seems to be aiming for “Dr. Strangelove”-level lunacy, when we probably would’ve settled for “Wag the Dog,” which similarly skewered politics through the lens of showbiz, or “Idiocracy,” the film this one most resembles.

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