"Good happiness" is a must -see for all fans of the latest big project Aziz Ansari and starred in it, his Reinforced Netflix Drama "Master of Nobody". His debut film has a similar light vibration; It's sad, but it's never too sad, funny, but still grounded. The "good happiness" premium sounds funny on paper-it's an angel that unfortunately throws a mortal on "Friday Friday"-Catastrophic Result-But humor is largely based on real-world frustrations with an economy and increasing living costs. It's a movie about how cruel the world of people struggling to deal with, and the pure work and patience needed for working -class people to find a look of peace.

When it comes to whether you enjoy this movie, more relevant than one's thoughts on "Master of Nobody" is what your thoughts are in the 1946 film "It's a Wonderful Life". It is the main film "Good Happiness" takes its inspiration, except for "Good Happiness" offers more cynical torque on the premise. If you are someone who loved the "wonderful life", but in the end you found it a little too happy and simply, you would love the most "good happiness". It is a movie that takes the famous, long-replaced format (something smuggling, an omniscient angel telling him a long-time boy that his life is great and he only needs to change his attitude) and flip it to his head. "Good Happiness" is not cynical enough to claim that Georgeorje was supposed to jump out of that bridge, but spends more time examining how poverty can suck your life from someone.

"Remember, no one is a failure that has friends," is a The famous line of "wonderful life", But "good happiness" simply responds: to have friends means a little if you can't afford to live.

The equivalent of Georgeorje in "Good Happiness" is Arge (Aziz Ansari), a man living in his car and trying to survive any short -term work he can get his hands. During that first act, he passes through a million sharply drawn resentment in the search for basic financial stability, something that Clarence-Gabriel's version of the film, an angel played by Keanu Reeves, never had to deal with himself. So when Gabriel tries to give Arj treatment with "wonderful life", spirals in something far darker and funny than the first act that implies.

Maybe it was Also Dark work, if not for the innocent performance of Keanu Reeves, doing all the work pop. This poor sweet angel really wants to help, but his clumsiness and naive fuels so much of the crippling of this film. Reeves here is almost unrecognizable by his recent performances "Johnon Wick", returning instead of vibration of His behavior in 1989 in "Great Adventure of Bill and Ted".

A little less funny is Rogen's set in response to Mr Potter's film. While "wonderful life" paints his capitalist villain As a totally heartless robber Baron, Rogen's capitalist character, Effef is simply unconscious and self -centered. It is the type of character that can actually be more irritating, because at least M -Potter never set up a friendly, understandable facade.

Maybe it was because I saw this movie showing the press at 9:15 am, but neither I nor the large audience laughed so much of "good luck". However, I blew the air from the nose to many paths, so that's something. But beyond a particularly dark dog joke, little of this film can qualify as funny. Even Gabriel will be described as a beloved first, funny second.

However, it is not a big blow against the film, because the drama of the main story works whether the jokes land for you or not. The fight that Arj passes in the first act has hit too hard to neglect, as well as the current sub -lounge of his Love -Board Elena (Keke Palmer), who is trying to improve her working life despite the world, seems to be against her. Sometimes jokes are not funny as they justify; It is a cadar to see a movie shooting all the little offensive ways that low -salary workers are often treated.

As with "it's a wonderful life", there is a dark line here: the main character implicitly thinks of suicide for most of the film, and "Good Happiness" keeps these stakes feel present throughout the way. "Good happiness" is the drama that is more successful on the drama side of things. It's darker "it's a wonderful life" and a more fantastic "master of anyone". Aziz Ansari is not a triumphant return for the big comeback of Aziz Ansari, but that's a good start.

/Movie rating: 7 out of 10

"Good luck" premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2025 and is scheduled to be released in theaters on October 17, 2025.