By Sam Bauman

The romantic comedy “Wanderlust,” now playing at the Fandango Galaxy cineplex in Carson City, is an R-rated outing that has plenty of the dirty words, touch of nudity and Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston as a married couple in New York City. He loses his job and her film idea for HBO is rejected.

They have to move out of their ‘micro loft” to fall on the hospitality of his brother, a super yuppie in Atlanta with a business of supplying toilets to events.

En route to Atlanta the couple finds the Elysium, a B&B inn of sorts. Except that it is a hippie commune, complete with a nude winemaker and Justin Theroux as hippie-in-chief.

It’s a Hollywood version of hippiedom, complete with grape stomping and a roadside vegetable stand. The place is owned by aging alternate life style invalid Carvin (a bearded Alan Alda — I can remember when he was the star).
Things get involved and after another attempt to stay with brother Rick (Ken Marino, as insufferable as your favorite brother) and his wife who enjoys a cocktail or three whatever the hour.

Rudd gets propositioned by a lovely hippie but backs off while Aniston beds with Theroux, but Rudd, after a psych up period in front of mirror where he recites the dialog for his extra-marital outing (which isn’t all that fun) he can’t pull it off and flees back to his brother’s mansion.

Subplot emerges when developers try to take over the resort grounds, which Annison heads off with a topless scene (top blipped out, of course).
This is a pretty fun outing as romantic comedies go, and Anniston brings it off winningly. She’s lovely, she is understanding and Rudd is OK if not up to her level. Rest of cast is weirdoes, of course, and they do a good job of impersonating hippies. (Not that I am a judge of hippiedom.)

Plot twist at the end puts the Elysium back in business with the nude wine stomper writing a best seller novel. Clever, and it takes care of what Rudd and Aniston do with the rest of their lives.

Could be a date movie if both parties can handle some language.
— Sam Bauman

Cast
• Jennifer Aniston as Linda
• Paul Rudd as George
• Justin Theroux as Seth
• Malin Åkerman as Eva
• Lauren Ambrose as Almond
• Joe Lo Truglio as Wayne Davidson
• Alan Alda as Carvin
• Kathryn Hahn as Karen
• Ken Marino as Rick
• Jordan Peele as Rodney
• Kerri Kenney-Silver as Kathy
• Michaela Watkins as Marisa
• Ray Liotta
• Zandy Hartig
• Ian Patrick as Grisham
• Patricia French as Beverly
• Trisha Paytas as Davidson’s wife

Directed by David Wain
Produced by Judd Apatow
Ken Marino
Paul Rudd
David Wain
Screenplay by David Wain
Music by Craig Wedren
Cinematography Michael Bonvillain
Editing by David MoritzR
Running time 98 minutes, rated