The “happy little trees” painter deserves better than this.
deliberately seeks to make a joke out of the lowness of these dramatic stakes, reminding us over and over that the mild-mannered world of Vermont public television is a far cry from theof most onscreen portraits of artistic rivalry. This could have been the setup for a terrific workplace comedy if McAdams’ script didn’t seem at every turn to blunt the edge of its own satire.
To his great credit Owen Wilson, who has spent a whole career specializing in just this type of cheerfully oblivious, tirelessly self-confident holy fool, almost makes this chiffon-weight movie worth watching through the sheer force of his doofy charisma. Had the script only given him a chance, Wilson is comedian enough to have turned the real Bob Ross into an unlikely romantic hero.
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