Keeping Up with the Joneses (2016)
Directed by Greg Mottola
An ordinary suburban couple finds it’s not easy keeping up with the Joneses – their impossibly gorgeous and ultra-sophisticated new neighbors – especially when they discover that Mr. and Mrs. “Jones” are covert operatives.
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What critics compared Keeping Up with the Joneses to
La misma apuesta a entretener a la audiencia al estilo de otros filmes similares que vinieron antes como True Lies, Knight and Day, Date Night y Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
Take True Lies and Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
You know the drill, familiar in everything from True Lies to Date Night: ordinary person or couple gets accidentally mixed up in espionage shenanigans and along the way discovers reservoirs of strength, ingenuity and courage they didn’t realize were there.
Arnold Schwarzenegger pulled Jamie Lee Curtis from her domestic complacency in 1994’s “True Lies,” and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were a couple of spies playing house in 2005’s “Mr.
Although an immediate comparison that comes to mind is David Fincher’s The Game—a thriller where a guy can no longer tell the difference between an experiential game and true danger—Game Night is more reminiscent of 2016’s Keeping Up with the Joneses where clueless suburbanites accidentally get wrapped up in a dangerous situation.
Indeed, it follows a familiar script for couples who have seen the magic fade ("Date Night," "Keeping Up With the Joneses"), only to rediscover each other through an adventure that usually involves people trying to kill them -- and in this case, conspicuously takes place in locales where a producer/star and his family might want to vacation.
The number of failures (See: We’re the Millers) far outweigh the successes (See: 21 Jump Street).