DVD Review: Save Yourselves!

Save Yourselves
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Alien invasion comedy with aliens that remind you of Tribbles, from the classic old Star Trek episode? You’ve already got my attention. Quirky exploration of oddball relationships? Check!

 

Comic actors Sunita Mani and John Reynolds play Su and Jack, a young-ish couple in the big city facing stagnation and communication issues in their married life. Unable to disconnect from their social media and e-mail, they ultimately decide to risk their own sanity by accepting a friends’ offer of the loan of his remote country cabin — an opportunity for them to fully unplug, get “back to nature” and reconnect with each other. The only problem: They choose to do so during the same exact moment that an alien race invades the earth. Those aliens — pouffes — look like large furry balls of fluff, but they’re actually quite deadly. But Su and Jack aren’t aware of the fate of the rest of the world, as they revel in their remote vacation, confronting issues in their relationship, and are blissfully disconnected from any news source. Once they discover what’s going on, is it too late for them to make a run for it and get back to civilization, or will they have to try to survive on their own, using only the tools they can find in their remote cabin?

 

Mani and Reynolds are dry and droll in their witty banter with each other, and anyone who’s glued to their smartphone and surfing Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and internet news sites will easily be able to identify with many of the issues Su and Jack are facing. Though ostensibly a “scifi” film, the actual scifi elements in Save Yourselves are fairly thin and unexplained — this is mostly a relationship comedy about two average people stuck in a situation they have no idea how to get out of.

[If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try Safety Not Guaranteed.]

[ Internet Movie Database entry for this film ] | [ official Save Yourselves web site ]

 

Recommended by Scott C.
Bennett Martin Public Library — Public Service

 

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