A couple of weeks ago, during the podcast we've started doing for our public radio station, we touched on the subject of plot-light movies such as Richard Linklater's Boyhood and Guardians of the Galaxy. As obviously different -- and excellent in their own ways -- as these films are, neither is as much about what happens as the way in which it happens.
You might say the same about Land Ho!, a pleasantly negligible buddy movie from writer-directors Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz that's about two 60-something Americans touring Iceland. That's really more pretext than plot, but the result is a mildly amusing picaresque that's sustained by the mutual affection of this odd couple, former brothers-in-law looking to prove to themselves and each other that they're "not dead yet."
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