The Idea of You review: Anne Hathaway is a delight in enjoyable romcom<\/a><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\nWhen Bea enters the world of the IFs beneath Coney Island, some inventive fun is had as the environment mutates according to her imaginative whims.<\/p>\n
The creatures are cutely quirky, albeit overly reminiscent of creations in films from Zootropolis to Hotel Transylvania. Lead IF Blue (voiced by Steve Carell) recalls Monsters Inc\u2019s Sulley, not least when IF\u2019s out-sized fur-ball is found hiding in a child\u2019s wardrobe.<\/p>\n
Reunited with the director a decade-plus after The Office US, Carell joins Phoebe Waller-Bridge and the late Louis Gossett Jr to headline a huge voice cast of A-listers, indicating the renown Krasinski is held in.<\/p>\n
But the voice cameos from Bradley Cooper (as an ice cube), Emily Blunt, Awkwafina, Brad Pitt and others merely feel like indulgences, distractions that add little to the plot. Pity Bea\u2019s father, whose stay in hospital keeps slipping out of view.<\/p>\n
Of the in-person leads, Fiona Shaw brings class to Bea\u2019s grandma, whose childhood becomes the touching focus of some late-film twists.<\/p>\n