This is a good movie, the acting is good even if I had the impression sometimes that the actress looked too normal for the role which gave the sense that she was acting this role and was not enough real. That said, I love this actress, she's excellent. What caught my attention is that even if the story doesn't need any sexual/romance plot, and could be really more interesting without, the writer injected that in the story, and managed to encrust a scene where we see the actress full body naked. I don't mind naked bodies when it's necessary for the story, in the shower, in a love scene, in the bath... It was not really necessary here, and I don't understand why good actresses accept it. It sounds just like a pretext for the creators, because the character is a woman, therefore she has to have a sexual activity and we have to see her naked. I don't see Dustin Hoffman having to do this as rain-man, or Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump either, does that remove anything from their story? I believe it is just an artifact of our time. Adult woman stories don't need sex or nudity to be viewed as adult. Story of a plain woman without the necessary nudity and sex belongs to the future. Sticking to these ingredients is not modern, because it's like we're stuck with them, it prevents the story from developing beyond and cuts down the character's charisma and dimension.For example, I wish we had seen the world more through her eyes in addition to the talk show, it would have been interesting to show how she interprets what people tell her, with cinematic effects or day dreaming scenes, or inner voice. The weakness of the movie is that it shows her from our point of view, not hers (despite her talk show), so all the drama in her life seems very trivial, it's almost like we mock her, but we don't understand her. We don't know how she really thinks. She just seems super crazy and it stops there. It made me think also of the movie "Requiem for a dream", what's with the craze for TV? Go to YouTube instead! There you can exist as you are ;)

Review: This movie had a really strange storyline, which I didn't find that funny, and the strange world that, lottery winner, Alice Kleig, (Kristen Wiig) built around herself was completely bonkers. Before Alice wins the $86million jackpot, she spent most of her life watching TV, and regularly sees her psychiatrist, Dr. Daryl Moffet, played by Tim Robbins, who helps her with her borderline personality disorder. She is also addicted to watching the Oprah Winfrey show, which she knows word for word, and she takes medication to control her outbursts and mood swings. When she wins the lottery, she decides to be in the audience of a live talk show, and when she is called on stage to help the presenter, she ends up taking control of the show by telling the audience her life story, which was completely weird. As the show is in debt and the brothers/managers, Gabe Ruskin (Wes Bentley) and Rich (James Marsden) need a lot of cash to keep the show running, April offers them millions to have her own show, all about herself. Rich accepts the proposal, against everyone's wishes, and her show turns out to be a complete disaster but as she keeps on pumping money into the project, she has the right to demand what ever she wants. As the show is only about her and her own little world, a lot of people leave the show because they can't put up with her strange demands. After a while, she comes to her senses and she starts to do good with her money, except for funding the ridiculous show which has no meaning whatsoever. I personally found the movie weird, and the fact that she jumped onto any man's bones, once they gave her attention, just made it go from bad to worse. The only saviour for the film was that she didn't change her expressions, even when she was asking for the weirdest of things, which made it slightly funny but apart from that, I didn't really see the point of the film. It does prove that having loads of money, really isn't for everyone, and she was totally better of when she was in her own little world, taking her medication. Anyway, although it's an original comedy, it basically wasn't for me, and I can understand why it didn't go down well at the box office. Disappointing!Round-Up: Kristen Wiig, 42, has a dry sense of humour, which has worked in movies like Walk Hard, Knocked Up, MacGruber, Date Night, Paul,her biggest hit, Bridesmaids, Girl Most Likely, The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, Her and Anchorman 2, and she has proved that she can turn her skills to serious roles like the Martian, The Diary of a Teenage Girl and the Skeleton Twins. She recently stars in the new Ghostbusters movie, Zoolander 2 and Masterminds, so she has joined the elite group of comedians, like Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd and Steve Carell, who all bring in hefty profits at the box office. She is much better in her cameo roles than when she is taking the lead, mainly because her dry sense of humour can only last a certain amount of time and it does become a bit tedious after a while. It's the first movie directed by Shira Piven, 54, who has also starred in Bob Roberts, Anchorman and Step Brothers. With her previous movies being with Tim Robins, who also starred in this movie, and Will Ferrell, it's not surprising that Ferrell produced this movie alongside her. I didn't really like the film that much, because I just didn't find it that funny and the storyline was just too crazy. It was good to see Tim Robins back on the big screen and Joan Cusack, Jennifer Jason Leigh and James Marsden were quite funny but that was about it.Budget: N/A Worldwide Gross: $650,000I recommend this movie to people who are into their drama/comedies starring Kristen Wiig, Wes Bentley, Linda Cardellini, Joan Cusack, Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, James Marsden,Thomas Mann and Alan Tudyk. 3/10

One of the more downright bizarre films you're likely to watch this year, this latest effort from the producing pair of Will Ferrell and Adam Mackay sees one of everyone's favourite female comedy leads Kristin Wiig as an even more demented version of King of Comedy's Rupert Pupkin to indifferent results that makes Welcome to Me a controlled train wreck that you can't help but watch.One of those comedy films where you almost feel too awkward or bad to even laugh, Welcome try's to walk the fine line between comedy and dramatics and when dealing with the anything but funny issue of mental illness (in which Wiig's Alice Klieg certainly suffers from) it's tough for a film to balance all the elements to combine a cohesive whole. While films like the aforementioned King of Comedy certainly did it and little scene films like Observe and Report straddled the line well, Welcome can't seem to bring the goods to the table needed to make both the antics of Alice's hilarious (live TV animal neutering anyone?) or her serious issues something we can care for, despite the best intentioned efforts of the daring and baring Wiig.We all know of Wiig's talents in the comedy field and with last year's Skeleton Twins in particular showcasing Wiig's chops in more serious pictures, it's good to see her once more try something outside the box. Wiig is arguably the films greatest asset and while things come and go on screen in a flurry of random developments, Alice's adventure as a lottery winner and makeshift TV show presenter is a site to behold sometimes for the right reasons and more often for the wrong reasons but its Wiig's commitment to the cause that makes us stick by and watch and while we never really get an understanding for Alice's true identity, Wiig certainly deserves a pat on the back.Without a second of a doubt too weird to connect to many more than a handful of viewers, Welcome to Me is a strange exercise exploring mental illness in the comedic medium that could've quite easily become something special on the back of Wiig's performance but ends up being a disappointingly unengaging journey to the deepest recesses of the bizarreness of the human condition and our ever thirsty want to feel relevant.2 recorded Oprah shows out of 5

Welcome to Me offers a curious combination of drama and humor which adapts itself well to the tragicomic sensibility cultivated by Kristen Wiig in Saturday Night Live through many years. Under more fortunate circumstances, the material would have been perfect for her... unfortunately, the interesting premise of Welcome to Me is betrayed by a weak and confusing screenplay which doesn't know what to say, or what road to take in order to find its inspiration. This is the type of "hard of classify" film which fails in its combination of genres. The main character had potential, but the screenplay leaves her adrift with badly raised and developed scenes. I was left with the impression that screenwriter Eliot Lawrence and director Shira Piven were afraid of making something too "mainstream", something which could have compromised their "indie" sensibility; and that's why they decided to focus on the most insipid elements of the narrative. That might seem a challenging and innovative attitude, but I think it was a mistake not to take a more accessible or compassionate tone to make the main character's arc more pleasant, or at least bring it a more satirical angle. The supporting cast of Welcome to Me includes good actors such as Wes Bentley, Linda Cardellini, Joan Cusack, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim Robbins, James Marsden and Alan Tudyk, whose characters form a micro-universe of drama and dysfunction which would have been interesting to examine. However, Welcome to Me didn't take advantage of those circumstances, preferring to adopt a distant and indifferent tone which never transports us to the main character's world. We watch every step of her emotional crisis, but we never feel it. Welcome to Me could have been an intelligent and reflexive movie; but its lack of conviction and vague ideology make it feel like a cursory introduction to a character who deserved to be much more examined. There needs to be something more than "look at the weirdo!" to capture the audience.