Movie review: Men, Women and Children – Boggs

Despite the misleading, initial Adam Sandler masturbation joke, “Men, Women & Children” attempts to comment on our hyper connected and hyper sexualized society and ultimately fails. The film is like a hyper-active child, it switches between the eight, yes eight main characters in seemingly random fashion. This cherry picking of their lives does nothing to make me care about any of the characters, but it does make me hate a few of them by either making them look like Hitler parents, who want to control their children’s lives, or selfish teenage brats. One thing I did like about the film was its treatment of internet and text communications. Cell phones, computer searches and video games are overlaid seamlessly into the world and it is not as jarring or annoying as the usual ways directors convey technology through the screen. In the end, “Men, Women & Children” is a movie that seems like it was made by an old man who sits on his porch and talks about how the kids today are too busy with their cell phones and their internet and then goes on to explain how back in his day everything was perfect and people today are terrible.