Beautiful fail - "New York for Beginners"

The biggest crime of satire is harmless. Razor-sharp satire must be hurt. So if such a satire, such as on the business with the beautiful glow of the celebrity world, so no age restriction released, may not agree with anything.It begins "New York for Beginners" quite promising and funny: Sidney Young (Simon Pegg) is a young gossip reporter who successfully little access to London's celebrity world. Mostly he is already at the door and dismissed if he is but once on a top event has geschlichen, flies the dizziness and Sidney soon on a high arc out.

But his self-published critic leaves at least has an influential readers: One day Sidneys phone rings and Clayton Harding (Jeff Bridges), chief editor of the famous glossy magazine Sharps, which offers young journalists for a job in the editorial department at New York. Already during his inaugural visit occurs in the rough Sidney is offered each Fettnäpfchen and shines through a barely tolerable mixture of ignorance, arrogance and pushiness.All hate him, his boss, colleagues, the celebrities. But at least he is now on all the parties, of which he has always dreamed of. He verguckt into a Filmstarlet (Megan Fox) and must realize that he apparently only by corrupting on the Vanity Fair may exist.

"New York for Beginners" is based on the unveiling novel "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" (German edition: "High Snobiety or How I was irritated by it all") of the British journalist Toby Young about his rise and fall as employees of the American society magazine Vanity Fair. The chronicle of his failure is a smart-corrosive look at the mechanisms and Strippenziehereien in the Celebrity industry.

In the perfectly entertaining movie version will be staged from the evil media satire, especially in the second half, however, a fairly tame, romantic slapstick comedy, including invented Liebelei with an editorial colleague.That takes the story about his appearance and not just their sharpness, but with the slapstick on specialized Actor Simon Pegg ( "Hot Fuzz - Two exceptions professionals") as a love hero occupy even less convincing. Really hurts because only the happy ending.