Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

It is wrong to expect a movie based on a book (by the French author Francois Lelord) to be exactly like the original story; of course characters will be merged, scenes will be cut, etc. However, this film completely ditches the original quirky nature of the book. The story is turned into a shallow B grade romcom, with the narrative and ending just as predictable as you would expect.What it does retain of the book, and emphasizes even more, is its cardboard-cutout portrayal of people of non-white ethnicity. Women are there to decorate the lives of men; Africans (no specific country mentioned, because all of Africa is the same, right?) are violent gangsters or poor-but-happy-villagers, dancing around; Buddhist monks are wise and funny, etc, etc.Although Hector's Journey is even worse than "Eat, Pray, Love", if you are the kind of person who thought that was deep and meaningful, then you might like this, but otherwise don't bother with it.

This film came out to me as forced and formulaic. The lessons accumulates a bit too well and quickly to work out except for a couple of them that still sounded real, expecially the bit with the ex-girlfriend. It's strange that a psychiatrist would not know better about happiness, with all the studies about it. This film is more of a mid-life crisis needing a resolve. It's a bit overacted with the actual girlfriend that acts like a little girl but Rosamund is so damn cute and fun. Passable with good bits and not so good bits.

He used to be funny and smart. This movie is just a lot of old tosh really. Storyline is weak. The pursuit of happiness. Indeed. First we get Tintin, then we get Eat Pray Love. Then we get a completely uninteresting ending. I would spend my valuable time watching something much worth it. Like "Little miss Sunshine", Forest Gump or even Trainspotting. All much more interesting about personal growth an the elusive search for happiness. On the plus side, some great actors in the movie, like Stellan Skarsgård and Christoper Plummer. Toni Colette's character had the depth of a paper plate in this one, so not really possible to rate her acting. But Simon Pegg, he had it, then lost it.

The movie is what the name suggests. Hector is a psychiatrist who has emotions subdued within him. He leads a measured life in his enclosed world. He is an arm chair traveler dishing out worldly advice to his patients and he realizes it. One of his patients is a psychic who suddenly reconnects him to his long forgotten past. This pushes him out of his comfort zone, on to a journey. A journey to find what happiness means. This takes him to China, some place in Africa and Los Angeles, meeting his old friends and making new ones. The experiences help him experience emotions that he might not have thought he would have felt. He enjoys luxury of city life, calmness of monks, helping those in need, coming face to face with death, feeling of completeness with family etc.. On the way he makes notes of things that make people happy. The final list of 15 things is not something that can make everyone happy, rather it is beautifully something that summarizes his journey. If you like the movie, you would be able to recall his journey whenever you read the list. It is a feel good movie, not awe- inspiring one that will change your life in any way. But it shows that you have an obligation to lead a happy life and might move you to seek out for what is it that makes you happy and assures you that its not all that complicated.