Don’t Look Up, Netflix’s Funniest Movie Ends The World

• Title: Don’t Look Up (2021)
• Director: Adam McKay
• Writers: Adam McKay (story by McKay and David Sirota)
• Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill, Cate Blanchett, Timothée Chalamet, Mark Rylance, Tyler Perry, Ron Perlman, Ariana Grande, Kid Cudi, Himesh Patel, Melanie Lynskey, Rob Morgan
• Genre: Satire, comedy, drama, sci-fi
• Runtime: 138 minutes
• Rated: R (MPAA). Check the Australian classification before you add it.
• Where to watch: See our JustWatch after the verdict.
• Updated 19th October 2026.

Two astronomers discover a comet heading straight for Earth, and the hardest part turns out to be getting anyone to care. Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up (2021) is a Netflix all-star satire that takes stabs at journalism, social media and a world trained to react rather than fact-check, and it’s as terrifying as it is wickedly amusing. Here’s the spoiler-free review, plus cast, rating and where to watch.

What makes it so funny is how steeped in reality the circumstances are. The dialogue from the key cast is as iconically accurate as it is absurd.

Don’t Look Up Movie Review

If a comet were to be spotted coming hurtling to Earth, would the world leaders simply announce the information as news? Would newsreaders and journalists take the crux of facts laid out and regurgitate the information with care and accuracy? Having lived in an insanely volatile universe this past few years it’s safe to say the answer to these questions is a resounding heck no. And that’s what the Don’t Look Up movie captures the essence of. It’s not like films haven’t done this before.

At the end of the year, the Netflix Original comedy Death to 2020 attempted to recap some of the world’s more serious and less funny events and make them unmistakenly humorous. Not because the events themselves were funny, but simply because the way the people in charge of these things handled them was beyond grossly incompetent in most instances.

Don’t Look Up Starring Cate Blanchett

It’s the “Don’t Look Up” cast that makes this cataclysmic movie succeed. If the film were cast with a different set of famous faces, Mother of Movies is unsure whether this would have been so enjoyable. Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio channelthe more serious side of the film while also bringing an extra dose of deadpan face comedy as the astronomers who simply want people to know the truth. In addition, they also bring an extra dose of deadpan face comedy as the astronomers who simply want people to know the truth. And let’s not forget Cate Blanchett, Timothée Chalamet, and Kid Cudi are scattered among the faces we all know. There’s barely a scene in the film without someone really famous in it.

Meryl Streep and Jonah Hill are the political faces of what emerges from the film. There is a myriad of political leaders’ traits and actions that have come and gone I found myself thinking about. What surprised me the most, is that I found myself pondering whether Meryl Streep could run for office in real life. The movie is so brazen in its realism of who we have seen running countries around the world that I wondered if she wouldn’t be a perfect fit.

Jonah Hill said he was channeling the Fyre Festival for his Character

Jonah Hill’s Jason Orlean, the White House sidekick to the President drops so many candid and laugh-out-loud one-liners viewers who enjoy this kind of wit will be hard-pressed to hear them all through fits of laughter. As the film moves into its final quarter, the movie with a funny bone takes a nose dive into territory that is so familiar to most. Without moving into spoiler territory for the Don’t Look Up movie, I will say Tinsel Town’s propensity for hosting concerts to save us from any pressing issue goes one step further here. And it doesn’t disappoint.

If you are looking for one last movie to see this 2021 that will make you just as impressed as it will amuse you, then Don’t Look Up is that movie.

Don’t Look Up movie is rated

4 Hoods so you can’t find the location of the Batcave out of 5

Don’t Look Up Trailer

“There’s dope stuff, like material stuff, like sick apartments and watches, and cars, um, and clothes and shit that could all go away. I don’t wanna see that stuff go away. So I’m gonna say a prayer for that stuff. Amen.”

Jason Orlean, Netflixs’ cast and character quote from Don’t Look Up.

Where to Watch Don’t Look Up

Where Can I Watch the movie? Don’t Look Up release date was the 9th and 10th of December 2021 depending on what country you reside in. Netflix’s Don’t Look Up is streaming on the popular film platform but for more options on where you can watch this movie, see the link below.

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Age Rating For Don’t Look Up

Don’t Look Up age rating is Rated R (MPAA.) The film contains sexual content, drug use, nudity, and lots of swear words throughout. In most countries, the age rating is a minimum of 15 or 18 places like Vietnam and France. Don’t Look Up IMDb rating currently sits at 7.3 out of 10 at the time of review.

Movies Like Don’t Look Up Where it’s Leading to the End of the World

• Dr. Strangelove (1964): Kubrick’s Cold War black comedy is built on the idea that it won’t be an enemy that finishes us off, only our own collective madness.
• Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012): Steve Carell and Keira Knightley go looking for love and company as the clock runs down, with a gentle comedy streak.
• Silent Night (2021): Keira Knightley hosts a Christmas dinner at the end of the world. It’s a black comedy on paper, but be prepared for it to be far more depressing than funny.
• The Last House (2026): A Netflix thriller movie where the end of the world is being trapped inside your own home.
• These Final Hours (2013): An Australian apocalypse story set in Perth, following one man’s race to the ultimate party before everything ends. Australian cinema – for more from us down under, check out our Aussie Cinema Tag.
• Leave the World Behind (2023): A quiet getaway turns tense when the power cuts out and nobody knows what’s happening. It’s paranoid, slow-burn and unsettling.
• Anna and the Apocalypse (2020): Zombies, comedy and the end of the world, set to music. What’s not to like?
• The Day After Tomorrow (2004): Roland Emmerich’s big-budget climate disaster is all freak storms, flash freezes and a wall of water over New York.

Filmmaker Stamp: Adam McKay

• Adam McKay is the funny man who can’t stop poking the powerful. He came up through Chicago improv and the Upright Citizens Brigade, then became head writer at Saturday Night Live. From there he built a catalogue with his longtime partner in crime Will Ferrell: Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Step Brothers, The Other Guys and Anchorman 2. They’re comedies where grown men commit to the bit and every scene is a stage for quotable chaos.
• Then he turned that same comic engine on the real world with The Big Short and Vice, explaining banks and politics through celebrity cameos, fourth-wall breaks and righteous anger. The Big Short won him an Oscar for adapted screenplay. He also co-founded Funny or Die and put his name behind Succession as director of the pilot and an executive producer.
• Across every film, McKay is the king of the joke with a point. The laugh arrives first, the argument sneaks in behind it, and a McKay scene rarely gives you one without the other. He co-wrote Don’t Look Up with journalist David Sirota.