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In the outrageous new comedy Wanderlust, Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston play George and Linda, a down on their luck, financially strapped Manhattan couple.

When George loses his job, they decide to go to Atlanta to move in with George's absolute pig of a brother (Ken Marino) and his self-medicating wife (Michaela Watkins), who likes to drink mimosas for breakfast and margaritas for lunch.

On the journey there, George and Linda decide to stop for the night at a bed and breakfast called Elysium - which turns out to be a commune full of hippies who enjoy a vegan, organic-farming, free-love existence and partake all too often in the smoking of pot and the indulgence of psychotropic drugs.

Their initial encounter with the resident nudist (Joe Lo Truglio) makes for one of the film's most hilarious sequences. After they really enjoy their night at Elysium they decide to move in and try to adopt the carefree lifestyle that includes the shedding of one's material possessions.

Directed by David Wain (Role Models), Wanderlust is a mostly hilarious, sometimes scattershot comedy that had me laughing quite a bit throughout. As rude and crude as it can get at times, there is an underlying statement here about the appeal of casting aside yuppie staples like career, monogamy and worldly possessions and embracing a life of pure love and freedom.

The supporting cast is excellent, and includes Alan Alda as the amusing head of the commune, Justin Theroux as Seth, the spiritual leader who seems perpetually stuck in the 90's, as well as Malin Akerman, Kathryn Hahn, Lauren Ambrose and Kerri Kenney-Silver.

Paul Rudd does a great job, essentially playing the straight man to all the lunacy surrounding him, and in one of the film's highlight scenes he stands in front of a mirror psyching himself up to have sex for the first time outside of his marriage, and lets loose with a barrage of vulgarities that are crazy, cringe-inducing and hilarious all at the same time. The follow-up scene where he actually attempts to seduce Eva (Malin Akerman) is an absolute trainwreck of awkwardness and silliness but it had the entire theatre laughing hard.

Jennifer Aniston doesn't get as many standout comedy moments as Rudd does but she is solid and likable, and plays the more reactive force to all of the insanity around her.

While the plot is simple and some of the jokes fall flat or are stretched out for a few too many beats, Wanderlust is a pretty entertaining comedy that had me laughing really hard at times and ultimately that is all I can ask of a film like this.

I give this one a 7 out of 10.