The catalysts are Salome's custom guitar, which Perry has been charged with picking up so she'll have it for her school gig, and former band mate Gary ( “Portlandia”’s Fred Armisen), a bad influence of such magnitude that he might as well have made his entrance on cloven hooves, trailing a cloud of sulfur.Īs the narrative pins click into place, Perry somehow finds himself hosting an out-of-control party in the presidential suite of the aggressively low-key Drake Hotel forgetting he's supposed to attend to his visiting in-laws crossing paths with his still-wild ex (Judy Greer), who's in town with client Joan Jett (as herself) and facing down the ghosts of rock ’n’ roll partners-in-crime past, including Gary and the utterly out-of-it Pete, played by the bizarre pleasure that is 2000s stalwart Kevin Corrigan. barely, at the family hardware store run by his younger brother.īut the plain fact is that he's Mister Mom, even if he does still look as though he does his hair with an eggbeater, and his 40th birthday-which also happens to be the day Salome is performing in the school talent show-is ground zero for his attack of middle-aged crazy. Perry tells himself (and everyone else who'll listen) that the band is just on hiatus and hey, he has a job. Now he's married and living in Queens with high-powered lawyer Karen (Selma Blair) and their two kids, preternaturally cool geek-girl Salome ( Madisyn Shipman), a blossoming musician, and her baby brother. A Universal release.Twenty years ago, Perry Miller (Billie Joe Armstrong) and his band were cool, edgy and quintessentially rock ’n' roll. MPAA Rating: unrated, with alcohol abuse, smoking, adult situationsĬast: Billie Joe Armstrong, Selma Blair, Fred Armisen, Judy Greer, Dallas RobertsĬredits: Written and directed by Lee Kirk. It plays like a reality TV pilot that’s a little too real (boring) for its own good. Writer-director Lee Kirk’s script manages a few laugh-out-loud lines and moments, and Armstrong has an offhanded charm that plays well in a role tailor-made for him.īut “Ordinary World” is a little too enamored of the phrase “Truth in advertising.” It’s run of the mill, humdrum, “ordinary” in its set up, the “ticking clock” (Can Perry polish off the party in time to get her new guitar to his daughter before the big elementary school talent show?), and temptations (pricey booze, punking out, Judy Greer). “It’s AWESOME that you still say ‘Awesome!'” No, there’s to be no punk music on that floor, even if that means his pals complain “You’re just no fun any more.”Īnd yes, that’s his old punk flame, now Joan Jett’s manager (J udy Greer) he runs into in the lobby. No, they don’t allow them in the suites at the Drake. He calls his drummer ( Fred Armisen of “Saturday Night Live” and “Portlandia”) and announces a party. So he takes his settlement cash from the store, marches over to The Drake Hotel and gets the biggest suite in the joint. Perry needs a break from “Dad mode.” He needs to remember “the old days.” He’d love to “get the band back together.” The other dads at school want him in their “Dad’s Group.” His brother ( Chris Messina) is angling to buy his perpetually tardy butt out of the family hardware store.Īnd the wife has forgotten his birthday, a big one - his 40th. But now Perry’s the guy who yells, “How many times I gotta tell you, USE an ashtray?” when friends come over. He’s still got the wild mop of dyed hair. Now, the only music he makes is to mock-explain the expletives he and mom ( Selma Blair) still let fly in front of their tweenage daughter and toddler. Twenty years before, Perry pounded through sets at assorted punk-friendly clubs in greater New York. The movie reminds you of a perhaps unfair knock at those “American Idiots,” Green Day. In “Ordinary World,” Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong plays an aging punk - husband and dad years past his punk-rock peak - who decides the most punk thing he can still manage is to blow a wad of his hardware store-job cash on a party for himself in a high-end New York hotel room.
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