The Fundamentals of Caring

The Fundamentals of Caring has the best of a great film and the worst of a bad one. It's acting is so split in either direction, it's interesting to watch. Rudd and Roberts are both fantastic, while Gomez and the rest of the side cast are lackluster at their best. The direction of the film is also good for most of it... until a couple of scenes happen which just look horrible. Overall, it has the makings of a film I could love, but it doesn't commit.

dying character + xylophone soundtrack = Sundance darling

A middle-of-the-roadmovie that will certainly charm people who have never seen a movie before. It starts off fairly interesting but as the movie progresses and the troubled characters pile up, It becomes more and more apparent that it can only end in pure cheese. And so it did. The "climax" is so forced and ridiculous that it made for the best comedic moment of the entire movie. Paul Rudd comes off as a fine comedy actor but plays a lousy traumatized father.

Once in a while, a road/buddy movie comes along that is both funny and touching. Although it's hollywood fluff at its core, it managed to be very funny and real. That's all I want from this type of movie and it delivered. Well done.

A quiet, understated comedy drama with fine, controlled performance from Rudd and Roberts that just manages to avoid heading down the road to cliché. There are some genuine laughs to be had, and the whole thing was generally quite charming. Nice.

I'm giving a lavish rating here for this 'heart-warming' oh-so-indie stereotype galore. I'm talking about saccharine overdose along with accompanying nausea. I'm talking about 'learning' life's lessons and not even having to wash hands afterwards.

The only thing I remember about this movie is Slim Jims

A great way to deal with great tragedies in a movie but still makes you laughing.

I could watch Paul Rudd do anything https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ytQVaGnSu4

Pleasant surprise as this easily could have wallowed in the mire of indie tripe. Rudd and Roberts are fantastic in this. It really only shines when it goes outside its cliched boundaries, but that is often enough to make it worthwhile.

It seems a little safe considering the subject material and it manages to avoid a few big potential clichés but falls into others. Roberts is brilliant though and I liked his chemistry with Rudd

Thank you, Netflix, for giving us these feel-good movies.

I thought it was really good.

Quite an underrated movie. Rushes into the plot a little bit, but once the wheels get turning (literally and figuratively), it becomes quite a heartfelt movie with a good balance of comedy and drama.

#24#, rw2, liked, story, cast!, oldies(2) }*{ #18#, rw3, story, cast.

"How the fuck did they get Paul Rudd to be in this?"

You're aware right from the beginning that this will be a heartwarming movie, where everyone experiences character growth and the story reaches a big climax. This takes away from the experience, so that you don't get to experience the highs and lows it's attempting to make you feel.

Surprisingly good for a Netflix pickup. Based on the synopsis, I expected this to be either a movie-of-the-week or an Oscar bait style film, but the execution is quite fresh. Rudd, Robert and Gomez are pretty good in their roles and have a solid chemistry. Although this doesn’t bring anything new to the road movie formula, it was able to surprise me with a couple of choices along the way. The length was also a plus. My biggest gripe is the distracting and unnecessary CGI towards the end.

Great feelgood movie. Cool that they picked up hitchhikers, they really gave the film and the lead characters cool insights :). It's a movie about trying to go passed your own boundaries - and the movie explains that well. Also, the movie is about getting over something - but the movie doesn't do that as good.

Never really takes off. There are some good ideas here, but none of them are very well explored. The vehicle for getting Rudd from point A to B, the unimagined, listless relationship between him and the sick, obnoxious kid, is base, drab and ineffective. Gomez's bad acting, and her character in general, only adds to the ill-suited goofiness of the film.

Absolutely brilliant chemistry between the male leads, but ran too long on the sole premise of cheeky banter between an abled person and a disabled person.

Just because the humor was right up my alley and because, at least in the beginning, it tackles a problematic issue with a lot of humanity. Otherwise a generic product with overused narrative arcs.

Funny, Goofy and Witty but with a lot of heart. I loved it.

An odd role for everyone in it, but I loved it nonetheless.

Was ok until the baby in the pit.

intelligent, heart-warming & very funny story free of hollywood cliches!

Well done and exactly my cup of tea. Score's not the most imaginitive, but alright.

Haven't been keeping up with recent wheelchair adventures, meaning I'm not as burned out by the sub-genre as others might. So for me this was simple sweetness on multiple levels. Good nice film.

I'm an absolute fan of the relationship between Rudd and Roberts, and that the film doesn't take itself too seriously. It's not something you haven't seen before, but that doesn't make it any less funny or thoughtful. *Good

There were some very funny moments, a few cliches. I could especially have done without the redeeming, too-nice pregnant woman. Some things seemed trying a bit too hard to be heartwarming somehow.

Paul Rudd instantly makes anything watchable, and that's no easy feat. He takes a Lifetime movie of the week and toes the line when it comes to schmaltz overkill. Craig Roberts seems promising and Selena Gomez is a wooden plank.

I love Rudd. I think I say that every time I see a Rudd movie (I CHECKED, in almost every review I've written about a movie he's in I've said it). Aside from that, it's not a remarkable dramedy but it's not a bad one. It has some good laughs, some heart and teaches us--admittedly--the same kind of stuff that this genre is known for. But it entertains, and that's what we want.

Selena Gomez's face is a so circular that it is distracting. Apart from that, this was a decent and quirky movie with a few laughs. The Peaches character is completely shoehorned into the plot and makes for a lame ending. Also the final scene at the Pit makes zero sense given what just happened. Paul Rudd seems half asleep, which I guess is how he does serious.