Aziz Ansari, Seth Rogen, Keanu Reeves Comedy

Poaching Elements from Like Movies Heaven Can Wait, Oh God, and IT’s a Wonderful Life to life-switchers like Trading placesand then mixing in the Social Consciousness of Preston Sturges Social Conscious Comedies of the ’40s Like Sullivan’s Travelsand you have the recipe for a contemporary take on the Kind of Lightthearted Fantasies Hollywood Digs up Every Now and Then, But now Perfectly Timed for A World Divideed More Grossly Into The Haves and Have-Nots.

Aziz Ansari, Making his Feature Directorial Debut, Writes and Stars AS, an La Gig Economy Guy Who Just Can’t Get A Break, Working Various Dead-End Jobs But Dreaming into the Entertainment Business Wen by Happlenstance and Jeff (Seth Rogen), Company mogul who basically is now living the esy life from his his home’s ultra modern sauna, planning to hire to take him on an ayahuasca journey, and finding someo to organize his garage. Into his life for the latter comes arj (ansari), Clearly impressed by the immens naked wealth and lifestyle. Arj Talks His Way Into Becoming Jeff’s Assistant, at Least for a Week-Long Tryout, but after doing great, blows it whehs jeff’s cred to pay for a $ 300 dinner with his girlfriend, Elena (Keke Palmer), Whom he met. Back to His Own MiseErable Exisistence, Living Out of His Car, Things Couldn’t Be Worsse UNIL Angel-In-Training Gabriel (Keanu Reeves) COMES Roaring in to Save Him-Or he Thinks. He has ben charged by boss martha (Sandra Oh) with Oversseeing the Lowly Texting and Driving Department, but more ambitiously Aims to earn his senior wings by uses target, trying to convinks the money can’t buy. IT DOESN’t Go Well, Especialy As, In Pure IT’s a Wonderful Life -Syle, he shows arj his fulee life in what tourns out to be a very bad example of “HAPPINESS” Including Living with Elena, Her Sister and Sister’s Boyfriend in Cramped Quarters. So he makes a deal. He will prove his point and switch arj for Jeff. Suddenly arj is Living the Life of Luxury and Money, and Jeff is hi assistant. For a good while, it becomes apparent Money plow Buy Happiness, As Arj Adjusts Quickly, but Jeff, Once He Gets What Has Happened, Demands They Be Switched Back, Offering ARJ $ 200,000 to Do IT. The Only Catch Acciting to Gabriel is that arj has to Want to go back. And adding to the Complications, Martha, Very Disappointed in Gabriel’s Handling of All This, Pulls the Nascent Angel’s Wings and Makes Him Human the Whole Mess is fixed.

Weaved into this hilarius situation is some serous stuff. Ansari’s Main Idea was to show the gig economy, and those stuck on the Lower End of the Economic Scale’s Struggles to Say Alive. In between all the jokes, the film stops more than once to basically recture on this sad State of Affairs, an Advishable Sturges-like Approach that Gets Laid on Thick, Spreads Too Thick to Merge SuccessFully with the Far.

Still, it is hard for me to complain when we see what we have currently government is doing to workrs to get by, keep a day jab, and provide for their family. Maybe a mainstream comedy like this can serve a purposes in keeping the plight of guys like front and center. I DIubt that we can ensemble wrote this film, he could imagine imagine showing up at home depot for Work Captured Like Murderers by masked Ice agents, but it Certainly have fit into his scenario, especally since for this is hard. Somehow, Good fortune‘s good intensations seem more timely than Ever.

The overall mission here though is to entertain, an an actual comedy designed to be theatrical, not streaming, but just like the Old Days, one that more than delivers enough laughs to make Watching it in a full. contagiously fun. And boy will we Need it now.

Ansari, Who Had Some Rough Times Bringing this to the Screen, Including the Strikes That Shut for Months, and Another Aborted Film That Was Cancelled Due to Its Star, Proves to Transfer What He Ded SuccessFully in His Emmy Winking Winking Winking Winking Winking Winking Winking Master of noneto the Big Screen As Well. Casting Himself in the Lead was inspired as this roles fits like a glove and his comic timing is eddie muvel-level. Rogen too is perfectly cast as a nice guy whose main Concern is getting his pool heater fixed, but suddenly finds Himself deling food. Best of all though is reeves, channeling his own 1989 comic past from Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure or a bitd of todd Higgins from Parenthod To bring deadpan delight as the well-meaning but constantly Screwing up angel to do good but being so bad at it.

Kay Lee’s Production Design is Another Plus, especally Turning Rogen’s Garish Ultra Modern Home Into a Character All itself. Adam Newport-Berra’s Sparkling Cinematography Perfectly Captures the Highest and Lowest Economies of Los Angeles, which is nice to see in all its gliding on the Movie Screen.

Producers are Ansari, Anthony catagas, and Alan Yang.

Title: Good fortune
Festival: Toronto Film Festival – Galas
Distributor: LionSgate
Release Date: October 17, 2025
Director/Screenplay: Aziz Ansari
Cast: Aziz Ansari, Seth Rogen, Keanu Reeves, Keke Palmer, Sandra Oh
Rating: R
TIME RUNNING: 1 hour and 38 minutes