Intelligent comedy about a "lost" middle-aged couple trying to find "meaning" by connecting with a younger couple. But there's much more to this movie especially when we come across a storyline concerning what is fake or real in the media. The comedy is great too ("I didn't mean 'bless you' in the sneeze sense. In the Pope sense!") Both leads are wonderful and I'm not usually a Ben Stiller fan. In under 90 mins, the writer/director has made a tight movie that is smart and has real feeling. Only quibble? Overuse of the Baroque on the soundtrack but there's also Bowie, Lionel Richie, Paul McCartney & Wings, and lots of hip-hop! (viewed 4/17)

I am cautiously biased about hipsters. Biased in the sense that many of them are self-absorbed and over-idealistic. But, I must admit, I've had memorable, life-changing experiences with kind-spirited hipsters. The kind like Jamie and Darby. I've known them, I've met them. In high school, in college and in the workplace. Those that welcome you into their lives selflessly and show you what it means to live freely and enjoy all the different eccentricities of life.While We're Young is a film that is just as complimentary and critical about hipsters. Josh and Cornelia are sent on an enchanting journey. Through street beaches and homemade ice-cream pints, they find what it means to truly loosen up and try new things. That is until they find that they've been set so loose that Jamie is trying to get one over on them. I wouldn't call Jamie a villain and I'm not sure if Noah Baumbach would either. He is a complicated companion as one would be if you were to really let a total stranger into your heart as Josh does. Likely, they will do things that disappoint you. But While We're Young ponders much more about our own quality of life. Baumbach is searching for that rare balance between freedom and rigid order and showing us how it can be found.Needless to say, as laid back as this film is, it's deep and fascinating in all the right ways. I found myself on the verge of adoring everything about While We're Young.

Josh (Ben Stiller) and Cornelia (Naomi Watts) are a childless couple in their forties who've reached that pivotal - and somewhat startling - moment in their lives when they suddenly realize that they aren't going to be young forever. In an effort to forestall the inevitable, Josh and Cornelia hook up with a hipster couple (Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried) in their twenties. Their commonality rests in the fact that Jamie (Driver) is a fledgling documentary filmmaker who greatly admires Josh's work .in the same field, even though Josh finds himself struggling to put his latest work together as he moseys his way into middle age. Yet, Jamie turns out to be a "spoiled brat" opportunist whose attitude and lifestyle are far less free-spirited and nonconformist than he leads Josh and Cornelia - and the world at large, in fact - to believe. "While We're Young" is a midlife-crisis comedy done in the oblique and sophisticated Noah Baumbach manner. The writer/director has some sharp and perceptive things to say about aging in a world that values youth above all else. The screenplay's targets (i.e., new age mysticism) are a tad too obvious and easy at times, but when he's not reaching for low-hanging fruit, Baumbach is right on the money in his humor- filled observations, as Josh and Cronelia grapple with the transitions and stages we all must go through - whether we want to or not - on this journey we call life.The moral of the story is that each age in life comes equipped with its own unique challenges and blessings, and that we should be willing to savor them without over-thinking ourselves into a state of terrified paralysis at the thought of growing old. It's nice to be reminded of that truth every now and again.

Actors are very good all of them. The film gives you the impression that young people are ruthless though fresher and open minded, money driven and merciless whilst middle aged people are bored, often purists and know better though have unfortunately lost the game in a world predominately aimed at young hip people. I disagree, young people are not all money driven and ruthless and middle aged people are not all bored and lacking energy and creativity. People are people young or old we all have our ambitions and make different life choices. I found the film interesting half way though and amusing, the actors are superb till I realized that the message behind is rather bitter and very pessimistic and very untrue. Such a cliché!