The aggressively irritating cine-sitcom “Happythankyoumoreplease” isn’t quite insipid, although if it were a little better, it could be.
This unbearably cutesy and hackneyed movie is a vanity piece starring, and written and directed by, mild sitcom presence Josh Radnor (“How I Met Your Mother”).
He plays a New York novelist who inexplicably adopts a black kid he meets on the subway, then drags him around town, extracting moral tutelage from the poor thing and using the lad to meet girls.
The self-adoring Radnor is surrounded by thinly written, sitcom-y characters such as a cabaret singer (Kate Mara) and a dork (Tony Hale) wooing a beauty (Malin Akerman, who plays the role with a shaved head because her plucky gal has alopecia).
Tired conversations and familiar plot twists ensue.
Save yourself the trouble, and stay home falling asleep watching CBS instead.