'Wander' past this one

“Wanderlust” is a silly mess of a comedy in the way it tries to mock a hippie lifestyle while still grooving off their good vibrations.

David Wain’s film follows New York married couple George and Linda (Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston) to the Elysium commune in Georgia, a place where every hippie cliché ever imagined is piled on to a disturbing degree, after they lose their jobs and apartment.

George and Linda are the only two characters who are not on an extreme end of the spectrum, be it the free-loving, voodoo-chanting, nature-embracing and technologically-challenged Seth (Justin Theroux) or George’s aggressive, douchebag brother Rick (Ken Marino).

Rudd is amusing in small-scale moments when the script allows one of the “normals” to be funny, namely because he will say yes to any bit, no matter how ridiculous.

But the movie’s screwball nature in attempting to top itself can be overwhelming and just plain gross. Not even an actor as likeable as Rudd can make carrying a newborn’s placenta  around funny.