Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Excellent but underrated film

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

This has to be one of the most boring movies I have ever seen. There is nothing interesting about any of the characters at all. I hate all of them. They are all so caught up in their own lives that they don't even hear anything that anyone else is saying. And that is super realistic and exactly the way real life is and that's why I gave it 5 stars. If it wasn't for that I would have given it 1. I hate the old man. Every time he opens his mouth I just want to punch him in the face. His two sons are losers. And their children are messed up too. One is making porn and calling it art and the other sounds autistic or something. The characters are just bad bland and boring. They are also annoying. They are the kind of people you try to avoid having to talk too. Don't watch this movie. It's not worth the time.

Unpopular opinion incoming.Noah Baumbach has made fantastic film and gratingly annoying films. The Squid and the Whale was a fascinating film about fractured families. While We're Young was a great film about hipsters. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) explores the affects of a father that was never there. The cast is as appetizing as they come. Hoffman, Stiller and Sandler are all giants of their own respective fields and have proven to be amazing dramatic talents. It looks like the perfect pet-project for a celebrated independent filmmaker. But as I watched, I felt something that I usually never feel while watching any movie. Nothing.The Meyerowitz Stories has no depth. It's a character study of truly empty people. It's Woody Allen's "Interiors" minus the pretentiousness. Dustin Hoffman sleepwalks as Harold Meyerpwitz. He seems confused or perhaps just going through the motions in order to get the pay check. Adam Sandler's performance is praised as Danny Meyerowitz, the limping, slovenly-dressed trust fund baby. Praised, perhaps, because he doesn't act like buffoon for once. That's an extremely low bar for praise, especially coming from the star of Punch-Drunk Love. Sandler, like Hoffman, feels entirely lost here. So does Stiller, so does Marvel, so does Thompson. These people are not a fun time to watch. You wouldn't sit next to them on a busy subway car. I didn't understand it. I didn't get it. Maybe it's a comment on the peculiar inner workings of a family unit in which the patriarch is a flighty, off-the-wall artist. But do I care to understand it on that level? Not really.

Perhaps this movie is meant to be satirical. A light-hearted examination of what it means to live the life of a wacky self-obsessed and self-important scultor (Hoffman) and his zany wife (Thompson) and his (not hers: she's his third wife) three troubled children (Sandler, Stiller, Marvel) in the Big Apple. Soft targets? Undoubtedly. The performers grab their roles and squeeze them for emotional possibilities, except for Marvel who quietly underplays her underwritten role and ends up as someone we feel we might know, or at least want to know. Cameo appearances (Adam Driver, Candice Bergen, Sigourney Weaver) merely contribute to the suffocating sense of self-indulgence ("look who's in my movie). It barely seems possible that this is the writer/diretor of WHILE WE'RE YOUNG and THE SQUID AND THE WHALE. I hope he finds himself again before too long.

To start off, this film is absolutely worth watching for the witty dialogues that Noah Baumbach has written skillfully. Some of the scenes, especially the first one of the entire movie, almost ask for immediate re-watching. However, despite some serious character development, the film didn't feel completely sincere and logical to me. It doesn't bother much, however, because of the great skill that the actors in the film have to bring Baumbachs jokes to life. Surprisingly, Adam Sandler stands out in The Meyerowitz Stories. Grace van Patten was also a great discovery to me, she reminds me a lot of Shailene Woodley in her better roles. The 'not unpornographical' movies Van Patten's character makes are so bizarre and funny that they deliver some of the best moments in this picture. Ben Stiller, Emma Thompson and Elizabeth Marvel deliver solid performances. Dustin Hoffman is incredibly irritating as the center of the movie. He handles that well, but it's difficult to really feel for him as he slowly gets weaker. Baumbach often makes films about irritating characters and in this film he doesn't manage to make you feel much emotion for them. That's the main flaw of The Meyerowitz Stories. Despite some serious character development in both the characters of Sandler and Stiller, you don't feel enough for them to be really moved by their new decisions. A minor flaw is the sloppy ending, in which too many things seem to happen unnecessarily. I felt that the film would have been better if it was about 15 minutes shorter. However, The Meyerowitz Stories is absolutely interesting for the witty dialogues, bizarre and aswkard situations and the appearance of Sigourney Weaver at an art exhibition.