Jeff Who Lives At Home

...Segel’s shaggy charisma and daft sweetness breathe new life into a sturdy mumblecore archetype, and a perfectly typecast Helms radiates a grubby desperation that’s poignant and funny.

...it's still amusing to see mumblecore's trademark naturalism leavened by some old-fashioned movie magic.

There’s undoubtedly comedy mileage in an irreverent sending up of the Signs/Magnolia school of everything-is-connected philosophy.