Wanderlust is rather more risqué than you might expect from a cast line-up which features rom-com favourite Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd of Knocked Up and The 40 Year Old Virgin. Lynda (Aniston) and George (Rudd) are a married couple who choose to shack up in a hippy ‘love’ commune called Elysium after George is fired from his job in New York. There are some good one-liners here, and the film does manage to provide something of a social commentary through its humour. Lynda and George initially move in with George’s brother and his wife, whose dysfunctional marriage (“thank god for wellbutrin”) is portrayed in a way that is sobering as well as entertaining. But the real focus of Wanderlust is Elysium, which proves to hold a wealth of transgressive comic potential – cue jokes about sex, drugs, race, sex and more sex. Some of them are even quite funny. If you want an insight into the darker side of deciding to embark on subsistence living cult-style, see 
. If on the other hand you want to watch an amusing and light hearted take on new age hippydom, then you can’t really go wrong with this. Even if the dope smoke does looks like it’s coming from a white filtered cigarette.
