“Ordinary World” (**1/2 out of four) was a sincere but unexceptional melodrama about a former punk rocker (Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day) coping with life after rock and settling into middle age and being a dad but has a mid-life crisis on his 40th birthday when he reunites with his old friends and bandmembers. Best thing about the movie is Armstrong who is endearing and funny in his first starring role that easily could reflect his own life; otherwise this treads on overly familiar territory involving middle age, leaving one’s youth behind them, and growing up. Worth watching but worth also re-watching “American Beauty”, “City Slickers”, and “The Young Adult” for movies that already covered similar ground.

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