James (Kyle Mooney) has lived his whole life in a bunker thanks to an unspecified catastrophe. His parents, Ted (Mark Hamill) and April (Jane Adams), have done their best but James is really only living for the weekly installments of The Adventures of Brigsby Bear, his favorite TV show. Then the cops show up and it turns out James was kidnapped as an infant and Ted and April are kidnappers who invented the whole thing to keep him from being curious about the outside world. At 25, James is suddenly "reunited" with his birth parents, Greg (Matt Walsh) and Louise (Michaela Watkins), and teenage sibling Aubrey (Ryan Simpkins). The world is vast and incomprehensible and worse yet, no one has ever heard of Brigsby Bear.
When I saw that this was produced by The Lonely Island comedy group, I thought it was going to be cringe/slapstick comedy. It is not. It is stunningly earnest, sweet-hearted, and pure in its intentions. James is trying his hardest to adapt to a world that seems alien and filled with strangers and everyone else is trying their best to meet him on, if not the same, a complementary wavelength. It's nice??? Mark Hamill is obviously a complete standout but everyone involved did a great job.
I felt so seen by this movie. And that's the highest compliment I can give. It is only available for rental (or LookMovie.to) but it's worth it.
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