Perry checks into a hotel to throw a birthday party with his old band mates and hopes it could reignite some passion in himself. Fast forward 20 years he now works in the family hardware store which his younger brother manages, he is married with two young children and feels life is passing him by as he approaches his 40th birthday. Armstrong plays Perry Miller who in 1995 was the singer in a popular punk band. Ordinary World is an awful mid life crisis film starring Billie Joe Armstrong, lead singer of the band Green Day. Overall, the movie, written and directed by Lee Kirk, just took way too long to get unraveled, but at least the final parts of the film prevented it from being a complete clunker, in my opinion. Thus, the film will follow Perry for one day,as he ends up spontaneously arranging a birthday party at a very fancy hotel, in NYC. He's having trouble, as he's ready to celebrate his 40th birthday, accepting living in his "ordinary world", as a husband and father of two, and mired in a job with his brother in a family owned hardware store. Now he's quite a scatterbrained but decent guy going through a midlife crisis. Billie Joe Armstrong (the lead vocalist for Green Day) stars here as Perry, a former punk rocker who left the band some years before to start a family.
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I felt there was a better movie in here somewhere that never really emerged, as the film got mired in awkward and flat humor, plus some plot elements that just didn't ring true. If only the first hour of this film was as good as its final twenty minutes. Still, despite the earnestly honorable intentions, and in keeping with the film's title, all involved here wind up coming off as not much more guessed it. In all candor, the same can be said of the turns turned in by the flick's supporting stable of actors, which includes a trio of highly capable pros in Selma Blair, Chris Messina and Fred Armisen. To the point where Armstrong's underplaying of his understated character never managed to amplify and fully engage me.
However, he proves to be just a little TOO passive in this role. Now granted, Armstrong's Perry is of decidedly docile demeanor, having ostensibly fallen into the mostly uneventful life he now leads. Writer/Director Lee Kirk thrusts it completely upon Armstrong to carry his movie, as the brilliant musician performs in practically every single one of it's scenes. While the hard driving original music Armstrong contributes is fantastic, particularly the amped-up onslaught that mule kick starts the story, the superlatives for this largely lukewarm effort pretty much start and end there. When presented with the opportunity to celebrate his 40th birthday in grand style he does it up right in a posh New York City hotel suite, together with his ex band-mates and a pack of party animals he's heretofore never met. This cat is a fish flung FAR out of water as domesticated husband, father and feckless hardware store sales guy. The comedy stars Green Day front-man Billie Joe Armstrong as Perry, a just turned middle-aged singer/guitarist on indefinite hiatus from his once-promising rock group. I really wanted to like "Ordinary World".
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