I realized after I got home that this is the second “two relatives with wildly different personalities tour Poland to see where their pre-WWII families lived,” but unlike Treasure, this one is actually good. Sure, the primary conceit doesn’t seem like something any rational person would actually do – “Grandma died, so let’s deal with the pain by visiting historical Holocaust locations from her life” – but it’s pretty clear from the start that neither of these guys is thinking clearly.
Jesse Eisenberg is strong as “Woody Allen, but as a devoted family man instead of a creep,” and Kieran Culkin is fantastic as the coolest guy/biggest loser you’ll ever likely to meet.
Also: this movie really made me miss Jennifer Grey’s original nose. Not that her current one is bad at all, but it’s not the nose of my youth.