An unabashed tearjerker that really got the tears working from the second act all the way to the end of the film. At almost 2 hours long, the Michael Showalter film moved along at a surprisingly clipped pace with the bulk, obviously, about the tail end of the relationship. However, condensing a 13 years relationship into 112 minutes will definitely end up losing up a lot of nuance and particularities that made Michael Ausiello’s memoir such a hit (I laughed as much and as hard as I cried while reading through it).
Nonetheless, the screenwriting team of David Marshall Grant and Dan Savage had done an admirable job in making us highly invested in the absorbing comedic/tragic love story between Ausiello and his bff/bf/hubs Kit Cowan.
Casting wise, Jim Parsons and Ben Aldridge had great chemistry together, I just wished their relationship was explored more in depth. Aldridge was really well cast and portrayed Kit in a relatable manner; Parsons, on the other hand, with the less showy and restrained role, was still prone to simultaneously overacting and being cold and detached. And ultimately, as characters, both were barely more fleshed out than the rest of cast surrounding them, including the indomitable Sally Field (monosyllabic Kirby, played by Sadie Scott, was a character standout).
In the end, “Spoiler Alert” was a watchable film with a good heart and should really get you to cry or at least shed a tear.
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