![]() ![]() Armstrong that punctuate the proceedings and a cameo by Joan Jett are the high points. The week before their departure to Arrakis (Herbert, 1). The first main world is the ordinary world. Many popular novels include these steps, such as Dune, Citizen of the Galaxy, and Harry Potter. Essentially, the Ordinary World provides a baseline that will make the Unknown World your protagonist later encounters stand out. The ordinary world, the extraordinary world and the return to the ordinary world, which includes the hero taking a new ordinary role. To no one’s surprise, Perry eventually learns his grown-up lessons. The Ordinary World: The start of the Hero’s Journey finds us in the Ordinary World, where readers are introduced to your setting, meet the starting cast, and get to know your protagonist. Blended into that is one of the oldest plotlines in the parental genre: Will Dad remember his daughter’s talent show and make it there in time? ![]() Perry recklessly rents an expensive hotel room, hoping friends will join him there for a party that will bring back his punk-rock mojo. Here the script, by Lee Kirk, who also directed, could have gone a lot of amusing places, but instead it settles for familiar tropes. Perry is not entirely comfortable with his bland life, especially given that he is turning 40 and everyone seems to have forgotten his birthday. In the old days he was a trash-the-hotel-room renegade now his angst involves forgetting that it’s trash day. Now, though, he’s a man-child with a wife (Selma Blair), a couple of kids and a drab job working for his brother (Chris Messina) at a hardware store. Armstrong plays Perry, whose band was popular in CBGB-like clubs for a hot minute in the 1990s. Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day is usually pretty appealing when he dabbles in acting, and he’s appealing again in “Ordinary World.” But after a promising start the script lets him down, and the film turns into a predictable midlife-crisis yarn.
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