Sweetie and I went to see The Descendants with George Clooney. Clooney plays Matt King a less than perfect husband and father whose less than perfect, extreme sport addict, wife Elizabeth ends up in a coma following a speed boating accident and will soon die. King decides to round up both his perfect little girl, and  his less than perfect teenage daughter , who brings along her moronic boyfriend and make the rounds of family and friends to tell them that they need to get to the hospital to say their goodbye’s to Elizabeth.

So that’s pretty sad, but then Matt starts to find out things about his wife that he has to go check out on his own. This is against a backdrop of Matt’s cousins and a big land deal coming up where the family is going to sell out a huge chunk of unspoiled  Hawaiian wilderness to a developer.

Clooney is a great actor. This is a serious movie but he provides comic relief. He can just look into the camera and be funny. He reminds me a little of Steve Martin sometimes.

Also interesting is the Hawaii we see in this movie. Much of it is the Hawaii of Dog the Bounty Hunter. the red neck side of things.

I give the movie four stars out of five. Go see it, leave the kids home though.