Sometimes a comedy requires something more than funny jokes. Cyrus has that something more. Supreme performances. All 3 of the leads here deliver excellently written jokes excellently. The tone of Cyrus is beautiful, it's Indie pacing sets for a mood where it makes the viewer almost expect something tragic to happen any minute. And then it makes you laugh.

Jonah Hill will do well to match this performance in his future career. I like him as an actor. He has a unique style, and its a style, i believe, that will never gather the acclaim it may deserve.

A supreme comedy.

Strikes a nice balance between "too funny to be depressing" and "too sad to laugh". The great performances keep the more farcical elements of the film grounded and make way for some genuine emotion.

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Featuring a change-of-pace performance by the reliable John C. Reilly, "Cyrus" is a low-key comedy built around a handful of characters with slightly off-kilter relationships. The dialogue and performances are strong, making for a solid, but not flashy, film.

No way this movie works without Marisa Tomei's awesomeness.

Tomei is as fine as always (yes, I'm referring to both looks and acting) but this movie belongs to Reilly and Hill. They play off each other very well. The writing is good and I don't really have anything to complain about other than that the outcome felt too nice, compared to the darkness hinted at through the film.

Really charming and funny movie, they manage to deliver a story where maybe not much happens yet the characters evolve naturally in it and in a very interesting way. I really like that it's all very subtle yet the movie is engaging and it never seems slow.

A small comedy / drama, it stands or falls by the performances of the three leads. Which are fantastic, all three of them are recognisable "faces" but here they are totally convincing.

You often feel that this is going to dark places, with almost a feel of "one hour photo" about it, this helps it to stay unpredictable throughout.

It's no classic, but is perfectly entertaining.

This would be an incredibly wonderful film if we weren't in and out of focus and the actors' faces. Talk about taking audiences out of a film. And what a film to waste.

Weird indie shakycam version of Step Brothers that can't decide what it is. There's a lack of jokes; but the main problem is the use of improvisation, which doesn't suit John C Reilly or Jonah Hill (who, incidentally, are both excellent comic actors) at all. Of course this serious comedy of serious acting won awards and got great reviews, which makes me fucking despair.

Well worth a watch, but reveals little more upon repeat viewings.

Meh. That sums up Cyrus pretty decently for me. It felt like a standard rom-com masquerading as an indie film. I really don't like Jonah Hill that much (but won't deny that I love Superbad), so watching him during some of the more dramatic scenes made me cringe a bit. That's all I got.

When this movie got it's DVD-release in Norway the tag was "Seriously - don't fuck his mom" and the cover made it look like someone was trying to cash in on Jonah Hill's sudden claim to comedy-fame. It couldn't have been a more off-putting cover for me.

I decided to check Cyrus out after hearing some nice words about it from the guys at redlettermedia.com. Turns out that the cover was a great example in misrepresentation. It's a balanced movie with equal parts real-life comedy and real-life drama.

One thing that spoiled the experience a bit for me was the constant zooming in and out with the camera. I got used to it after a while, but I just can't stand that sort of cinematography. Makes me dizzay.

um...not a comedy really