“Don’t Look Up,” a Netflix doomsday comedy written and directed by Adam McKay (“Vice”), imagines how the American people might respond if a planet-killing comet were heading our way. (Spoiler: it’d be similar to how we’ve dealt with pandemics in the past: not well!)
- Ariana Grande, Meryl Streep, Ron Perlman, Mark Rylance, and Jonah Hill star in McKay’s comedy, incorporating increasingly weird circumstances.
- Proceed to the White House to tell President Janie Orlean (Streep) about the impending destruction.
- After their first White House encounter, Kate and Randall travel to New York City to announce the comet news. Leonardo DiCaprio’s ‘Network’ time has arrived.
- They’re on a morning program, and the cheerful hosts don’t seem to take them seriously: Riley Bina’s engagement to her ex-boyfriend, DJ Chello, is even more intriguing.
- Kate flips out on TV and becomes a meme, but Randall is dubbed “America’s sexiest scientist” due to his high favorable ratings.
- Ariana Grande performs the following post-apocalyptic anthem: Only weeks before it collides, the comet has split America: those who can see it in the sky join the #JustLookUp movement.
In the new thriller (now streaming), Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence play as astronomers seeking to warn America about the impending disaster. But they’re treated with distracted apathy when it comes to the oncoming space body — at least until it generates political discord, even among comet doubters. McKay isn’t afraid to push his hypothesis to its logical conclusion – and, as it turns out, beyond it.
Ariana Grande, Meryl Streep, Ron Perlman, Mark Rylance, and Jonah Hill star in McKay’s comedy, incorporating increasingly weird circumstances.
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The first lady of the United States, Meryl Streep, is not a fan of facts:
After Michigan State professor Randall Mindy (DiCaprio) and Ph.D. candidate Kate Dibiasky (Lawrence) predicted the giant comet’s direct hit on Earth in six months and 14 days. They travel to the White House with Teddy Oglethorpe (Rob Morgan), the head of the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (which is a real thing!), to inform President Janie Orlean (Streep) of the extinction-level event.
She and her crew, particularly her unpleasant chief-of-staff son Jason (Jonah Hill), don’t seem to mind. According to Randall, the comet possesses “the strength of a million Hiroshima bombs,” according to Randall. Still, Orlean dismisses the severe danger, claiming that the midterm elections are only three weeks away and that such news would cause her party to lose control of Congress. “I suppose we just sit tight and access,” Orlean says, startled and amazed by the room’s geniuses.
The US is powerless to ‘Armageddon’ the situation:
The government will soon be unable to deny that a comet is on its approach to Earth. When a building sex scandal between the president and her Supreme Court nominee (a former nudist) threatens Orlean’s popularity ratings, she sends a racist mercenary “war hero” (Perlman) into space as a public relations stunt to blow the comet off course.
When super-weird tech mogul Peter Isherwell (Rylance, channeling Steve Jobs) realizes the comet contains trillions of dollars in valuable minerals required to create telephones, his Space Shuttle turns around, and the trip is aborted.
The moment for Leonardo DiCaprio’s ‘Network’ has arrived:
After their first White House encounter, Kate and Randall travel to New York City to announce the comet news. Riley Bina’s (Grande) engagement to her ex-boyfriend, DJ Chello (Scott Mescudi, aka Kid Cudi), is even more fascinating. because they’re on a morning show, the joyful hosts (Cate Blanchett and Tyler Perry) don’t seem to take them seriously.
Kate loses it on TV and becomes a meme, but Randall earns the title of “America’s sexiest scientist” because of his high favorable ratings.
Ariana Grande performs the following post-apocalyptic anthem:
Only weeks before colliding with the Earth, the comet has split America: those who can see it in the sky join the #JustLookUp movement to accept their fate, while Orlean leads a right-wing fake-news campaign. With the slogan “Don’t Look Up.”
However, she does not have the support of a young pop diva. “Get your head out of your (butt), listen to the goddamn qualified scientists/We really (messed) it up,” Riley and Chello sing in “Just Look Up,” a beautifully crafted, over-the-top pop song with lyrics like “Get your head out of your (butt), listen to the goddamn qualified scientists/We really (messed) it up.”
Ariana Grande performs a post-apocalyptic anthem: Only weeks before the comet collides, the comet has split America: those who can see it in the sky join the #JustLookUp movement to accept their fate. At the same time, Orlean leads a right-wing fake-news campaign with the slogan “Don’t Look Up.”
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