"Do you wanna be right or wanna be happy?"
I had been looking for this movie everywhere possible and when I had lost hope I suddenly found its DVD in a store near my home right at the bottom of the stacks. I didn't think twice and bought it right away, it was the best thing happened to me today. Celeste and Jesse Forever easily made its way to my list of favorite movies. This movie is just that great.
The story revolves around two best friends, Celeste & Jesse. They have been together since forever. They dated, got married, and somewhere along the way their marriage didn't work out very well because Jesse didn't have any 'real job' therefore he wasn't the kind of man Celeste wanted to build a family with. Jesse is a very laid-back, immature guy, he does art for living but he doesn't seem to be serious about it, while Celeste is a successful trend forecaster who just released a book and also has a firm working in marketing sector. Although their friends disapprove, Both Celeste and Jesse believe that their divorce won't affect their friendship and they'll still be best friend forever. They even still live together although Jesse lives in the garage behind the house, they still do their routine together and have dinner together. The problem starts to arise when Jesse tries to get serious with a girl and Celeste finds that she might not be ready to move on.
While the plot sounds very cliche, the movie is far from it. I believe this movie has just proved that Romantic-Comedy movie can be more than just about entertaining its viewers. Each of the main characters have their own complexity and issues to be solved, I was actually surprised by the depth they show. Both Jones and Samberg really blow me away, they portray the character very well; the love, the emotions, the anger, the hurts, everything was shown delicately. And the chemistry between them is amazing, you can actually feel how much their character love each other, it's kind of surprising since none of them had played drama before.
One of my favorite thing from this movie is how real it is. The characters are not perfect, they are not superficial, they are so humane and very much alive. The story isn't fairytale, it isn't very dramatic but still manages to be enticing, it has the right portion of melodrama and comedy.
It's a story of loving someone, it's a story of moving on, it's a story of finding your self and giving it a chance.
It's definitely one of my favorite romantic movie ever, and you should all probably watch it too :-)
