Welcome to Me

Kristen Wiig was a delight in this offbeat production. A mentally handicapped girl wins the lottery & decides she wants to be on TV. Coming off her medication ultimately leads to disaster, but there is a lot of comedy getting there. It was mostly cute, entertaining & fun to watch.

The black humor may be a bit too dark and deadpan for many to swallow, and it certainly doesn't help that the lead character which with we are supposed to sympathize with is an unsympathetically terrible person. Even so, the train wreck is so supercalifragilisticexpial-atrocious that it's hard for a fucked up person like me not to be thoroughly enraptured.

I made it through 30 minutes before turning this off. This film isn't bad; it's just...typical indie dramedy fair. I know I am getting older because I used to watch every film I started until the bitter end. Nowadays, I am okay with turning a film off early. Maybe this film gets better, but I am okay with never knowing.

A sort of depressing psychotic UHF. Wiig gets the chance to show off her talent and there's a great surreality to the execution, but hard to say if it borders on mental illness exploitation or not. Anyway, her TV show would make a killing in DVD sales.

While I didn't love this I've been very interested with Kristen Wiig's post SNL movie choices and hopes she continues to make the ones with the more interesting premises.

Kristen Wiig shows that she's not just a one trick pony, delivering a dramatic character study of a woman with Borderline Personality Disorder. If you like dark comedies that are off the wall, this is right up your alley. Has a cool, eclectic soundtrack as well. I have no doubt that if this tv show were real, it'd be the number one thing on television!

Now I know what Dr. Pat the Quack looks like naked.

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Hilarious! Totally silly. I'd watch it again!

Kristen Wiig was very good but it ain't my type of movie.

More aggravating than funny.

This film is offensive to anyone who has a mental illness. The filmmakers should be ashamed of themselves for putting this drivel out there.

I'm still trying to figure out if I'm irritated in a good or bad way. Because on other levels the movie never reached me. But again, that wasn't its premise anyway.

A discomfiting black comedy with a stunning performance by Kristen Wiig, WELCOME TO ME is both a cringe-worthy burlesque of mental illness and a spotlight on a media culture that enables and encourages narcissism. Wiig keeps the whole film from falling apart early on with her portrayal of a lottery winner with borderline personality disorder, evoking a mixture of pity, compassion, and revulsion: a strange brew that speeds the film towards much better--and funnier--results later on.

An engaging, off-beat black comedy

#16#, exp3, rw2, story, actresses

I love Kristen Wiig, but this movie was not good. Painfully funny, minus the funny.

Kristen Wiig is brilliant, and some of the talented supporting cast is underutilized (Jennifer Jason Leigh criminally so), but hey, they're in it. Dark cringe-humor without being too over the top, allowing the pathos to breathe. Why do we love movies about horrible / damaged people? Err, I guess I should speak for myself.

Wiig shines in the hilarious and uncomfortable movie that challenges the viewer to look away.

For mine, Welcome to Me was well positioned to lift off into an airless stratosphere of off-putting clashed concepts and wallow in that space until it reached an unconventional conclusion, an ample crescendo given the subject matter, but instead the film wraps up in a tidy heap. Kudos to Wiig for the commitment to whatever comes her way.

A lot seems to be lost in execution here.

Thought-provoking satire and interestingly different approach to the comedy formular although rather clunky and strangely lifeless.

Wiig is great, but the severely under-used supporting cast left me wishing for less of her and more of them. The comparison to a less goofy UHF is oddly accurate.

What is this? What the everloving fuck is this??! Check out that cast list. Joan Cusack, Wes Bentley, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Linda Cardellini (quite a fall from Lindsay Weir to this). How could it lose? And look, I don't get the Kristen Wiig hate. I'm a fan. Consistently makes me laugh. But this? She's playing a little out of her depth on this one. I've seen her deliver the goods in dramatic roles before ("Skeleton Twins") so I know she's capable of better. Such a strange and unpleasant film.

Not bad, just pointless.

Wiig is brilliant, and if you're into cringe there's a lot to quote-unquote like here. Unfortunately the movie falls into a few too many standard morals towards the end, but it still remains an admirably unsettling little film.

A bleak comedy with more than a few laughs and a whole lot for us to think about. Wiig is asd good as she has ever been as Alice Klieg, a self-absorbed lottery winner who pays for a TV show about herself, but the movie's highly individualized supporting characters are also strong. Klieg needs them to make her show and her life possible, and by the end even she--as isolated as she is--comes to realize this truth. Robbins, Cusack, Marsden and Cardellini are all very good in support.

This Klieg woman is such a fascinating train-wreck, I couldn't take my eyes off her. Not only have I known versions of this egocentric behavior, at this point it's become the perfect critique of our culture. And the movie is uncompromising. You won't have an easy time if you're looking for likability.

Welcome to Me is often funny and occasionally sad. Wiig portrays a narcissist with mental health issues, and puts her penchant for playing oddball characters to good use. While Wiig carries the film on her performance, its true strength lies in its supporting characters, whom the cast do a great job of bringing a sense of realism to balance Wiig's eccentricities. The plot feels fresh, and while it's not an instant classic, this film deserves a look.

Interesting plot with some fine acting to back it up.

Pointed satire on the obsessive "Me" culture, which has some excellent straight up humor at times as well. But it sort of unravels like a bumpy roller-coaster ride. I'm a Wiig fan but I had to wonder what the full frontal added to the experience, pretty much left me Wiiged out. Had me wondering if maybe the movie was a little closer to home than intended.

An oddball dark comedy that's weirder than it is funny. Kristen Wiig is great in a performance that keeps the film worth seeing even when it kind of flies off the rails. It's an odd film, and one that's unlikely to connect with a lot of people, but for those who like dark comedies -- particularly dark comedies that kind of sneak up on you -- it might be worth seeing.