This is a smart movie, one that's very unexpected.

Funny People is funny, moving, dramatic, and alternately hilarious. It's a bit like a stand-up dramedy.

The film is also an admiring portrait of the artist as Californian solipsist -- unburdened by personal ties or even the need to seem intelligent, free to follow his own random, petty, moment-by-moment train of thought.

The most underrated Judd Apatow movie.