![]() ![]() Teddy Oglethorpe (Rob Morgan), the head of the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (a real federal bureau, as a supertitle informs viewers), who rushes them to the White House to deliver the news in person to the President, Janie Orlean ( Meryl Streep). They reach out to NASA and are put in touch with Dr. Randall Mindy ( Leonardo DiCaprio), and they calculate that it will strike in a mere six months. ![]() The comet is discovered by Kate Dibiasky ( Jennifer Lawrence), a graduate student in astronomy at Michigan State its trajectory toward Earth is discovered by her adviser, Dr. It’s also a movie about the blighted mediasphere-yet, even with the best of intentions, the movie only adds to the blight. It’s a raucous comedy in which a tale built of near-plausible elements is told by way of exaggerated character traits, absurd situations, and high-wattage star performances. “Don’t Look Up,” for the record, tells the story of the discovery of a huge comet that’s heading for a direct strike on Earth that would end life on the planet the degraded journalistic environment that trivializes the discovery and minimizes the danger and the feckless President whose self-interested blunders allow the comet to strike, catastrophically. Cleverness exhausts itself in a single glint and then repeats itself to infinity. ![]() The difference is that wit is multifaceted, like a gem that, however small, offers different glimmers at different angles. Adam McKay’s satire “Don’t Look Up” is a clever film that’s short on wit. ![]()
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