Review of Hit the Road

Such stunning landscapes should be cheating, I instantly fell in love with them and they just continued to impress as the film went on. Of course, jaw dropping landscape shots alone do not make a good movie, and Hit the Road is an excellent movie. The delicate balance between heartbreaking sadness and humor is handled flawlessly. The humor is wry and often catches you off guard with its bluntness, while the melancholy of the purpose of their journey is stricken throughout the film. The acting is superb, with a child performance that could easily have been as annoying to the audience as it is to the family but is played to perfection allowing us to sympathize with his unfortunate position of ignorance in the importance of this journey.

This film easily earns multiple viewings from me in the future and I can't imagine it will ever be a drag to do so.